From Goddard’s:
Lamont’s victory, however, would not be without its downside for Democrats, since it would only embolden the crazies in the party, a consideration not lost on other Democratic elected officials and strategists.
Lieberman’s defeat is likely to add to the partisanship and bitterness that divides the country and Capitol Hill, and to generate more media attention to grassroots bomb-throwers who, down the road, are likely to make the party less appealing to swing voters and moderates.
— Stuart Rothenberg is editor of the Rothenberg Political Report.
We are all crazy bombthrowers. It doesn’t matter that, when it comes to Iraq, we have been right all along, and Lieberman has been wrong. It doesn’t matter that Lieberman thinks rape victims should take short-rides from hospital to hospital to assure they don’t become the mother of their rapist’s child. All that matters is that we are not emboldened to further attack the incumbent protection racket.
Because we wouldn’t want to derail the money train.
we’re bomb throwers and crazies.
And just who are and how do we label the folks currently in power in DC??????
Given Rothenberg’s command of reason, I’d say he qualifies much better for the “crazy” label than anybody here, for example. His alleged thinking is so twisted that I have to wonder who pays him to write.
Emboldening crazies doesn’t seem to have hurt the GOP any, since they control the government to our nation’s lasting damage. People who routinely lie, who think God discusses politics with them, who attack other countries for no reason, who brag about not knowing about current events, might credibly be put in the “crazy” column. Instead Rothenberg attaches that label to those who oppose the Iraq disaster and are trying to do something about it.
And Joe’s defeat will cause more bitterness and division? Please. Ever hear of Bush or Rove or Delay, Stuart? Enjoy your paycheck.
It doesn’t matter that, when it comes to Iraq, we have been right all along…
It didn’t matter in 1972; should we really expect it to matter this time around?
“The Establishment:” another old word we may need to take out, dust off, and recycle…
;-D
I’m one of those supposed “crazies” and my neighbors at the grassroots are rapidly shifting from Republican to Democrat. The swing is almost swung.
And the only bomb-throwers that me and my neighbors way out here in the Podunk boonie grassroots see are those who are throwing bombs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon, and those who are plumping for World War III. (Hello Newtie.)
Why don’t you get your sorry …. out of Washington, DC, and find out what is really going on in the grassroots.
Namecalling: the tactic of a five year old.
So, in response:
“I’m rubber, you’re glue.
Whatever you say bounces off me
and sticks to you.”