Democrats Blundering?

Real Clear Politics brings up the idea that perhaps all the emphasis on Gitmo, Losing in Iraq, the Patriot Act...etc... might really be hurting democrats. I tend to agree. If you want their version, its pretty good, but i am gonna try to put it in my own words from how i see it.

The mistake is that its all criticism, but not constructive. I liken it to being the guy that watches you work on your house and points out everything you are doing wrong, but doesn't tell you how to fix it or do it better other than call a professional. As far as I can tell, there is no real clear plan by the democratic party (note: I said party not individual politicians). You have Murtha saying that Iraq is a failure that is unwinnable and needs to have "redeployment" as soon as possble with everyone out in 6 months. There is no telling where we will redeploy to, what types of units are staying, how we are supposed to help with infrastructure, no mention of what we do about the areas that are not ready yet to be fully taken over by Iraqi police, etc. Its almost like its just vague ideas but no concrete plan of we do "a" "b" and "c". I mean we have attacks on the patriot act but no alternative to it even when there is a consensous we need something. We have hear all about the attrocites of Gitmo but there is no mentioning of what we got from using aggressive techniques. Pretty much all we hear is bitching. It almost seems like, ecspecially with the torture allegations, that the left is more concerned with the rights of terrorists than it is protecting US citizens and servicemembers.

Given this lack of alternatives, i believe that the country is sick of it. We have the president saying that things are wrong but we have a plan and can point to particular instances of success. Elections, numbers of battalions that take the lead, etc. When presented with this evidence of positive success, and contrasted with the constant negativity and gloom and doom from the left side, it looks more and more not only out of touch but just plain defeatest. Its one thing if we are just trying to paint a rosy picture here but its a far more accurate one as well. I think that it shows a large disconnect, kinda similar to what happened to the right 2 years ago er so when Iraq was painted as better than it was. I think my major problem with it is that if you are going to err, wouldn't you want to do it in a positive way? I mean thats my opinion. The democrats just seem to bitch that stuff is wrong but then we never see and real alternatives or a plan that will lead us to victory instead of just running away, somthing that the people on the ground in Iraq, are vehemently against.