the BEAST will ignore him and waltz on through like he's not even there...
Posted on 08/21/2006 5:30:18 PM PDT by neverdem
JONATHAN Tasini has less than a month to become New York's Ned Lamont. The Democratic primary is on Sept. 12, he's at 13 percent in the polls and he's just had his best fund-raising week ever online.
However, as Primary Day approaches, the "netroots" have yet to make the Tasini campaign a cause célèbre, with all the money and press attention that doing so would mean. This, despite the fact that the centrist, Iraq-War-supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton, presumptive frontrunner for the '08 Democratic presidential nomination, should by all rights be a much juicier target for the "progressive" Left than the washed-up Joe Lieberman ever was or could hope to be.
Tasini, a union leader and organizer turned anti-war protest candidate, has some ideas as to why: Essentially, it all boils down to a lack of backbone on the part of progressives nationwide.
"Many progressives fear confronting my opponent's machine - which does take names and does keep lists," Tasini told me over lunch in the West Village last week. "People are hedging their bets - Washington is a place that hinges on access." Otherwise, Tasini said, "Why take on Joe Lieberman and not Hillary Clinton?"
He certainly has a point. If the progressive movement is really set on seizing control of the Democratic Party, Lieberman has always been an odd choice of targets - a has-been who lost bids for the presidency and vice presidency and who's serving out his time in the Senate until he can retire in some graceful fashion.
Sen. Clinton, meanwhile, has a roughly identical profile to Lieberman's on the war in Iraq and on issues like free trade - but, somehow, she gets a free ride.
Not entirely, of course. Many in the progressive netroots movement have made clear their disdain for Sen. Clinton.
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Well, give 'em a BIT of credit - Hillary Rotten Clinton is the last best hope for them to see the inside of the White House without paying for the tour.
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the BEAST will ignore him and waltz on through like he's not even there...
Dealing with the Dem netroots must be like trying to sneak past a roomful of rabid weasels, hoping you don't draw their attention.
Is this guy crazy? Going up against Hillary is like fighting an army with a handgun.
RUN, Tasini, RUN!
And demand that she debate you.
When you are face to face, put a cardboard cut-out of Monica's face over yours while she answers the first question,......
A cut-out of Peter Paul on for the second one....
A cut-out of Vince Foster for the third one........
and on and on......
NY1. the local NYC all-news network sponsors the Debates. They have refused to allow Tasini to debate Her Highness, paving the way for her coronation.
pass the popcorn please
There is absolutely nothing "Progressive" about socialism.
Right.
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