The Democrats Stand For...?

Do the Democrats have a message -- a vision for America and concrete plans to achieve it?

What do they stand for?

If you can't sum it up, don't feel inadequately informed. The Dems themselves can't explain what they are about.

At the Democratic Party's spring meeting in New Orleans, the Dems struggled when asked to spell out their message for 2006.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Ask Democratic leaders to identify their party's election-year message and you get everything but consensus.

..."One message? Hmmm. I don't know. Let me think about it," Alvaro Cifuentes said after a long pause. Several minutes later, the head of the Democratic National Committee's Hispanic Caucus said, "You can't try to simplify your politics with a slogan. You can't."

..."It's not that we don't stand for anything, it's that sometimes we stand for everything," said Barry Rubin, executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party.

...Democrats say their message is not as muddled as it sometimes sounds.

"We may talk about it in different ways but there's still the same goal," DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney said.

...Linda Chavez-Thompson, the AFL-CIO's executive vice president, said one Democratic message will come together. "We're formulating it now, and that is, we are going to change things in Washington and the Democratic Party has the answer," she said.

Janice Brunson, a DNC member from Arizona, said the Democratic Party has a clear message for 2006, but she struggled to explain it.

"The problem is we don't have a two- or three-word slogan that pops out," she said.

...Some Democrats said emphasizing GOP woes will be enough to win on Election Day.

It's clear that the Dems don't have ideas and answers.

They have attacks. That's all.

The Dems have seen gains as a result of their "shock and awe" orchestrated assaults on President Bush and members of the Administration.

Aided by the lib media, they've created an impression of Bush and the Republicans as corrupt and incompetent.

According to Dems:

• The U.S. should have left Saddam Hussein alone to rape and torture and brutalize in peace.

• Before 9/11, Bush cooked up that war plan to make his oil buddies rich. The War on Terror is a facade to steal oil.

• Bush's economic policies have been disastrous. With tax-cuts for the rich, the economy is a mess.

• The White House is corrupt and plagued by scandals, like leaking the identity of a covert CIA agent to punish her husband for being critical of the Bush Administration.

• The Bush Administration spies on Americans at will.

• And of course, the Vice President tried to assassinate his "friend."

• Most importantly, Bush is a liar, and stupid.

All of this is untrue, but it's what the Dems are offering the American people.

Without question, the Dems have a unified message that can be summed up in a three-word slogan:

WE HATE BUSH.