He said the Democrats were adopting half-measures "out of panic."

That is, there isn't much substance in the platform the Democrats adopted yesterday.

It sounds like a bad thing, so Democrats eagerly adopted it.

Democrats adopted a similar strategy in hard-core Republican areas, typically suburban or rural.

In contrast, the Democrats once more adopted abortion rights language in the platform at their own convention.

The Democrats adopted a similar tone in their own weekly speech.

Tuesday the Democrats adopted yet another version that would raise the county property tax by 15 percent instead of the 5 percent previously agreed on.

Democrats have already adopted such disclosure provisions by party rule.

But if Democrats adopt this strategy in 2004, the results will be even more disastrous than Tuesday's.

Democrats adopted the Republican view that new tax breaks are needed to generate more domestic oil production.