Attention Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards: it's time to hit back.

Will the Democrats finally take the fight to the Republicans tonight? Here's a few excerpts from Sunday's Republican debate.

See a pattern?

HUNTER: And let me tell you something I’m tired of. I watched the Democrat debate. I watched them say, as my colleague has said, “Just bring them home. Come home.” And it was a race to see who could stampede for the exit the quickest.

MCCAIN: We are winning. We must win. And we will not set a date for surrender, as the Democrats want us to do.

GIULIANI: I just noticed the question before, Senator McCain said something -- in four Democratic debates, not a single Democratic candidate said the word “Islamic terrorism.” Now, that is taking political correctness to extremes.

ROMNEY: At the same time, you look at that Democratic debate, I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do. I mean, in one week he went from saying he’s going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he’s going to bomb our allies. I mean, he’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.

GIULIANI: I know the Democrats get all upset when you say this, but they’re taking us toward socialized medicine.

BROWNBACK: You’ve got the Democrats doing a step-by-step march toward a socialized one government-pay system. And they’re very happy to do it that way.

GIULIANI: David, there’s an assumption in your question that is not necessarily correct, sort of the Democratic, liberal assumption: “I need money; I raise taxes.”

GIULIANI: I would restore hope, but for the people of the entire country: hope that this country can do great things, grand things, that we can build our future on optimism, not this kind of defeatism that I hear from the Democratic candidates.

Now let's contrast that with some excerpts from the Democratic/YouTube debate. Notice how the Democrats are trying to out-bipartisan each other and how reluctant they are to criticize Republicans.

DODD: In every case, those are new ideas, bold ideas, that I campaigned on and then were able to achieve in the United States Senate by bringing Republicans as well as Democrats together around those issues.

OBAMA: And that is something that too many of us failed to do. We failed to do it. And I do think that that is something that both Republicans and Democrats have to take responsibility for.

RICHARDSON: But what we need is a bipartisan effort. Put this issue aside. If I'm president, I would take this issue and I would say, Republicans, Democrats, within a year, let's find a solution.

OBAMA: Who can unify the country, so that we're not just talking about Democrats and Republicans, but we're talking about Americans?

And here's a shocker. The word "Republican" only came up once during the entire PBS debate. Once.

GRAVEL: And it’s with Democrats, with Republicans, they take care of the people.

The South Carolina debate isn't much better. It's always "Republicans and Democrats" this, "we have to work together" that.

The Republican brand has never been weaker. Polling shows that on just about every issue -- from the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to climate change to health care-- Americans side with Democrats. They want Democrats to stand up and lead. The independents have been with the Democrats since 2004, when Kerry won the I vote.

What are they afraid of?

The Democrats have to stop debating like it's 1988 and go for the kill.