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Posted on 08/10/2006 7:35:54 PM PDT by neverdem
Ned Lamont's victory Tuesday night in Connecticut's U.S. Senate primary is great news for Democrats. And it's a watershed moment for the growing majority of Americans, in red states and blue, who want change.
For months, polls have warned that across the political spectrum people are fed up -- with the no-end-in-sight occupation of Iraq; with an energy policy that caters to oil giants while gasoline prices soar; with a health-care system that leaves more behind with every passing day. Lamont's victory is evidence that a long-awaited wave of voter sentiment on those issues has materialized.
It's certainly understandable that Republicans would prefer to see Democrats continue to run the temporizing candidates whom they've had little trouble trouncing for the past decade. But you'd think Democratic strategists would be jumping for joy -- after all, they should be able to ride the anti-incumbent feeling to victory in November. Instead, we hear the perennial pundit nattering about moving the party too far to the left. And Marshall Wittmann of the Democratic Leadership Council -- who stubbornly refuses to address the real civil war in Iraq -- invokes the specter of a domestic civil war within the party.
That's because while Lamont's victory is a promising development, it marks the beginning of the end for an old favorite of Washington insiders -- the tactics of triangulation. Originally employed as a survival strategy by a Democratic president in the wake of 1994's Republican revolution, the policy of seizing the political middle ground no longer makes sense in an era when any attempt at bipartisanship is understood as a sign of Democratic weakness and exploited accordingly.
Had triangulation worked, we'd be in a different moment. But for six long years, it hasn't. Even Sen. Hillary Clinton has seen the writing on the wall in...
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Oh this is gonna be fun! Eli Pariser, the great rat strategest, speaks to the masses and assures them that yes, MoveOn will continue their losing ways, today, tomorrow and forever. Please send more PayPal donations!
The only harbinger for the nation in the Lamont nomination is the harbinger of total destruction for the rats. Fools like Pariser can't see that though because a) they can't count and b)they much prefer their red utopia fantasies to political reality.
It's gonna be 2004 all over again. Get the Prozac ready...
Really. And that made it impossible to distinguishe from the usual output of the Washington Post's stable of technically skilled, ideologically blinkered, bone-marrow-biased writers.
I have never seen anyone conclude that the political center of gravity in the whole United States has shifted, based on one of the bluest of blue states opting for a bluer Democratic candidate. If Pariser really means this, then the Dems need to nominate the furthest-left hack they can find in New England... the nomination fight between Bernie "Socialism failed in the USSR because they didn't try eith enough vigor" Sanders and Ted "If I'd Only Had a Volkswagen" Kennedy is on.
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I agree. This one REALLY needs a BARF ALERT.
I find that has un-intended consequences at times. I didn't realize you were so sensitive. Wouldn't it have been better to know what Castro and Pol Pot really intended before they took power?
Yes, that old tagline deserves to be recycled somehow....
Great analogy. That fits on so many levels.
"The writer is executive director of the MoveOn Political Action Committee."
Dang! I'm shocked! It was so hard to tell which side he's on! </sarc
Thanks for the tie to MoveOn. I knew this writer was a whacko in the first sentence.
Even though I don't like Lieberman (except on WOT), I'm gonna love it when he beats Lamont. A visit to DU might be most enjoyable that night!
"What is really pathologically fascinating is that 98% of these voters live in large urban areas which would be the first ones obliterated in the peacenik bogus world they envision. Terrorists target big cities-- HELLO. Is anyone home?"
That's a really good point! I've made it few times to see the loon roll their eyes and either be in denial or have them come back with the latest illogical Dem talking point. It's like they're a kid at a horror movie that covers his eyes for certain scenes. See no evil, hear no evil, brain no work! They just can't stand to even think about it!
You say that like it would be a bad thing.
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