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A Legacy of Losing

From McClellan to McGovern to forever: Democrats as the surrender party.

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THERE IS A REASON WHY America's favorite Democratic presidents are FDR, Truman, JFK and Bill Clinton. The reason is that the vast majority of Democratic nominees with names like Seymour, Greeley, Tilden, Hancock, Cleveland, Bryan, Parker, Cox, Davis, Smith, Stevenson, Humphrey, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry simply could not win -- and in the case of nominees Bryan and Stevenson that meant not winning three times and twice respectively. You can't be anyone's favorite president if you can't win the presidency!

If it were bad luck to have a woman on board a ship in the days of the fictional Captain Jack Sparrow's pirating adventures, history certainly records that a political party whose leaders bring on board a candidate calling for retreat from a decidedly real-life moral struggle of the day -- whether it be slavery, the Cold War, or the War on Terror -- will without question induce a mind-numbing legacy of losing.

There may well be Democrats out there looking at these candidates who are thinking it, who understand it, who want to fight it. But no one is willing to say it.

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Bill Clinton, Television, Islam, Military, Iraq, Iran

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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

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