WSJ.com-Democrats Test Slogans For Next Election Cycles:
Testing lines for 2008, Democrats with presidential ambitions accused President Bush and the Republicans of making a mess of the economy and Iraq while arguing that Democrats offer the best hope for a rising middle class that's preferred the GOP.
"They're not taking care of America. They're bankrupting our country and failing to address the problems," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D., N.Y.) said Monday, citing skyrocketing gas, college and health-care costs.
Speaking to the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist think tank, she and three other yet-declared presidential candidates argued that Republicans have ignored the very people who make up much of the country. Democrats won't, they promised.
"It's the American dream, stupid," said the former first lady in a riff on her husband's successful 1992 campaign mantra, "It's the economy, stupid."
Just when you think it's safe to get back in the political waters, a lame catch phrase that's been done to death (and then some) re-emerges as a virulent new strain to ruin yet another vacation season. The sad thing is that someone actually got paid to come up with that clunker. Back to the focus groups, please.
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