Thank Whomever it isn't on his toes.
That was, as we say, a low blow.
What a load of sanctimonious self-aggrandizing crap!!
Blame Mondale? The man was a figure-head, re-thrust upon the stage as a fricken place-holder! At worst, Mondale was a token of a greater problem. This party had no 'voice', no plan, and no coherent identity long before the Wellstone crash, and have nobody to blame but themselves.
Josh Marshall had it bang-on when he pointed out that the Democrats had an "over-emphasis on tactics". I would go further! All they had was tactics, whether in New Jersey or Minn or Florida.
Bush fumbled corporate scandal _badly_ (Harvey Pitt, etc.), and was all show and no go on airline security (Minetta). They would have lost anyway, largely, but it is ASTOUNDING that neither one of those issues prompted substantive comment from the Dems. Instead, the best they could muster was ad hominem attacks against Bush. Ad hominem (even if true, and I think there is something to it on the corporate shenanigans front for both Bush and Cheney) makes you look weak an whingey.
Who the hell wants weak and whingey leadership when there is a "War On" on?
DickMo and the rest of the pollsters can tell you what the public are concerned about, but if you let them try to tell you what to _do_ about it, you get no real plan, no real position, and end up with nothing but talking points, also-rans, and Thursday morning quarterbacking from the same freakin' pollsters explaining why they were too smart (too "inside") for their own good.
Ken
Egg on his face and toe jam between his teeth.
As I noted over at Daily Pundit, is there anyone who would feel more put upon if he were only a "real voter" rather than a Washington Insider?
He reminds me of Otho in the powder blue leisure suit towards the denoument in Beetlejuice.
