What Fixer said over here. And what this OP-ED in the Post says:
It doesn't help any that the Democrats haven't been able to speak plainly in decades. Because if under George W. Bush the Republican Party has become heartless, the Democratic Party has become spineless. Republicans like my neighbors look at left-leaning candidates and see nothing but a blur. (I myself went hoarse last year during the presidential debates, screaming, "Stop hedging and say what you mean!" at the television set.) Or, as my friend Mark, a lifelong liberal, put it: "I'm so disgusted with the leadership from both parties that I'm going to become an anarchist."
So many republicans are fond of saying "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, they left me". There's some truth in that, especially for people looking for some spine, somewhere. Enough Republican Lite. Enough DLC. Enough being all things to all people. Never gonna happen. Note to the Democratic Party Leadership (and I use that term loosely): Lead, Follow, or get the hell out of the way.
Bye, bye DINO's. Bye Bye DLC'rs. It's time to Bring It. Or be doomed to being inconsequential forever and ever.
posted by Jo Fish on 09.26.05 at 04:39 PM
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Well said Jo. We need leadership and a coherent message that our leadership will fight for and defend. No himming and hawing--just straight talk backed with brains and spines.
posted by: mando on 09.26.05 at 09:50 PM [permalink]
There are plenty of good Dems. The problem is, not even just the DLC, but the Blue Dogs - 35 House Dems that vote Republican a disconcerting amount of the time. And then the spineless DLC'ers who're afraid of their own shadows because Bob Shrum is always telling them Vietnam ghost stories to keep them wetting their pants. I guess they're being consistent. If you don't stand for anything, you can't sell it out.
More Conyers, please. More Barbara Lees, Maxine Waters and Barbara Boxers.
If you can't stand up and explain what the hell is wrong now, when it's so obvious, what good are you? Fight, dammit.
