You only need to read Digby's critique of the Presidential Press Conference to see that the Twit-in-Chief has only gotten more clueless as time has passed. But what you really need to read is his scathing assesment of the DLC. Whose time has, I am beginning to believe, passed as well.
The fact is that it does not matter if our candidate actually supported the war in Iraq or not. If John Kerry is the nominee rather than Howard Dean, do they actually believe that the Republicans will not find a way to portray him as soft on national security? Please.
It. Does. Not. Matter. What. We. Actually. Do.
We could sign on to a 0% tax rate for millionaires, repeal of Social Security, prison terms for homosexuality and oil rigs in the middle of San Francisco Bay and they would still say we are liberal, tax and spend, tree hugging, treasonous pacifists because it is in their interest to do so. Until we stop tugging our forelocks and sniveling around like beaten dogs, thereby validating their lies, they will be believed by a fair number of Americans. People who turn the other cheek when they are being unfairly and relentlessly attacked are either saints or pussies ... and the DLC aren’t saints.
If the DLC doesn't make themselves more relevant to the processes of the 2004 Campaign, and by that I mean get in touch with the internet "activists" among other things, they may very well find no one listening to them, and then we all lose.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.31.03 at 01:25 AM
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One must also recognize that Dean is running against the DLC as much as the DLC is running against Dean.
I'm still trying to figure out why Gephardt is in the race at all, after the debacle of the 2002 election; could that be due to the DLC's urging? And is the DLC behind the recent rumors that Gore may run in 2004 after all? I'd rather have Dean.
Well I see that the DLC is being described as "centralist" in the articles about their position around today. Good lord, if they are in the center, then that would make old FRD and Harry Truman just commies, just like Coulter said.
posted by: Ron on 08.01.03 at 10:30 AM [permalink]
