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Shouldn’t "Gotcha" Questions… Um, Getcha?

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Insty links to this, which is apparently a set of questions that Bill Frist has posed to Hillary Clinton, presumably in order to embarass her and other Democratic candidates. This is a time honored tactic; it is intended to expose the compromise positions that a candidate has to make in order to satisfy her own base, but that are not popular with the general electorate. Here are the questions:

Do you favor personal savings accounts as a voluntary part of Social Security Reform?

Do you favor an increase in retirement age as part of Medicare reform?

Should Medicare have an element of means testing?

Do you favor opening up Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration?

How do you propose expanding Health Savings Accounts?

Do you favor giving citizenship to those who are in this country illegally?

Should the United States send troops to stop the genocide in Darfur?

I think Insty and Fristy need to review exactly how this works; the trick is to ask questions that force the opponent to take unpopular stands, and NOT to take positions that are both a) wildly popular with the general electorate, and b) highlight the distinction between the your own unpopular position and your opponent’s very popular stance. Now, as far as I can tell, on at least three of the above questions Hillary’s stance is favored by a prohibitive majority, and Frist’s stance is quite unpopular. The immigration question is a non-starter, and the Darfur question highlights in the inability of the President to do anything useful whatsoever in Sudan.

Christ. I really wonder how we ever lose to these morons.

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