January 02, 2002

Democratic Party Plans to Commit

Democratic Party Plans to Commit Suicide

At least, that's how I read this report on Democratic plans to base their future electoral strategy around the claim that the Republicans are just as bad as the Taleban. According to Newsweek's Howard Fineman:

This is an incendiary battle plan — essentially comparing the GOP right with the Taliban — designed to draw an outraged response from the president.Then Democrats would have Bush just where they wanted him: in a firefight at home.

In their deluded dreams. I hope for their sake they are kidding with this. Whether or not you tend to like the Republicans (I don't: I'm more in the "hate 'em all" camp) this is absurd on its face, and the fact they even bring it up seriously demonstrates how far out of touch "progressives" still are with ordinary, normal Americans. At any rate, trying to brand the Bushies as the Dark Force of Intolerance was a failure the first time around: one of Bush's only categorical successes in an otherwise frivolous and desultory campaign was that he managed to triangulate sufficiently to defuse this well-worn, retrograde charge.

If they carry through with this idiotic strategy, they deserve to lose, "bigtime," as the saying goes. And, if so, I don't think it would be premature for Republicans to start popping their Champagne corks. What a bunch of idiots.

Posted by Dr. Frank at January 2, 2002 04:55 AM | TrackBack