With the DNC convention all but finished in Boston, I think America has gotten a pretty accurrate picture of what the Democrats are fielding this year.

The biggest problem I’ve seen is simply this — they’ve offered no real solutions. Nowhere in all the flowery happy talk of Barak Obama, the hatchet job of Jimmy Carter, or the rantings of Ted Kennedy has there been anything that even resembles an original idea. Instead, we’ve heard from dozens of Democrats who have realized that they can’t win with the “anybody but Bush” strategy. They’ve got John Kerry, so they have to support him. The liability of supporting Kerry is that he’s presented nothing even resembling a real plan for correcting the perceived (or real) mistakes of the Bush administration.

We’ve heard nothing about a plan for the Middle East, except that the Bush plan is fatally flawed. Nothing about the economy, except that rich people don’t deserve tax breaks. No alternative to Bush’s plan on gay marriage. Nothing about homeland security, except that the Patriot Act is a violation of civil rights.

It’s great to put on a smile and talk about uniting America, but at the end of the day, this campaign is about real issues. If you think the Bush foreign policy is so bad, then tell us how to fix it. How do you plan on building bridges? How do you plan on repairing America’s reputation in the world?

How would John Kerry work with a Congress that will likely be at least partially controlled by the GOP? How would he work with Tom Delay, Dennis Hastert, Trent Lott, and Bill Frist? I don’t hear any of this.

I know the convention is an infomercial, but I’d at least like to know what I’m getting for mt 3 easy payments of $19.99. Tell me that it slices and dices. Give me something to compare Bush to.