Their leading candidates are an astonishing collage of terminal narcissistic loons, mental dwarfs, psychopath demogoges, criminal shysters, serial sexual predators, and (in the case of Gore) overtly psychotic whackjobs.
The only candidate in the last 30 years even remotely sane was Lieberman.
Agree with everything you say.
What I find particularly disturbing is that anyone, even the average Dem, still takes Gore seriously. That man is both insane and incoherent - yet there are those who still insist he is a statesman and "leader."
aND WE ALL SAW WHAT THEY DID TO lIEBERMAN, the only man among them who could have been president.
Here's my take on the Dean and Gore screams. The conventional wisdom is that Dean and Gore are nut cases and ready for the straight jacket. I'm ok to some extent with that interpretation.
But consider the audiences in both cases. Dean's explanation ex post facto was that he was giving the audience "what it wanted". That the college kids working for him needed a little "red meat" after losing to Kerry in Iowa.
Little needs to be said about MoveOn.org. This outfit is essentially CPUSA.
Both Dean and Gore are experienced politicians.
So my take is draw the appropriate conclusions about the speakers and as I said, I can't argue the point. But my main point is what does this tell one about the *audiences*. The fact that two dem politicians have gone off the deep end in front of live audiences may have, in the end, more to say about the *audiences* then about the speakers. Politicians become successful by knowing their audiences and saying what the audiences want to hear. Perhaps Dean and Gore are merely holding up a mirror to the absolute nuttiness of huge wings of the democratic party.
When it was just Dean, it was easy to say that the guy lost it. Now you've got Gore doing the same thing. Is there a pattern here? I guess if it happens a third time we'll have to say that there is. But I think one really has to stop and think about just how crazed the dem in the street has become!
"The only candidate in the last 30 years even remotely sane was Lieberman."
Couldn't agree more. Zell Miller and Ed Koch are also extremely honorable men, who happen to be Democrats with vision and basic common sense. They are, in no way, representative of what the Democratic Socialist party is today. It will be a dark time in our nation's history if John Kerry, or any leftist wins in November. People need to know that each and every legal Arab/Muslim citizen in this country will be voting for John Kerry.
As a lesbian, I have made an unwavering decision to agree to disagree with the Republican party line on gays, because the party's line on homeland and world security is what really matters. When all the Islamic nutjobs are dead, then maybe, I'll worry about the gay issue.