The
Great White (Really White) Hope of Democratic politics is at it again.
Indiana Senator and 2008 hopeful, Evan Bayh, is once again telling the party's base to shut up and sit down:
WASHINGTON - Tough-on-terrorism Democrats urged their party on Tuesday to put foreign policy ahead of political retribution in the fall elections, underscoring a divide between the party's hawks and doves that could frame the 2008 presidential campaign.
"Simply lashing out in anger at the current administration doesn't accomplish what we want," said Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, a likely candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Read the whole piece. Why Mark Warner would want to tie his name to this clown is beyond me. (And why Warner is a favorite among some here remains a puzzle to me, but that's a subject for another diary.)
Granted, Warner tries to have it both ways ("Don't take withdrawal off the table"), but, generally, his pronouncements on the war have echoed the DLC line.
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I don't disagree with the general thesis of Will Marshall's new book (highlighted in the article) that Democrats need to outline a strong, tough foreign policy -- but who has been more wrong on foreign policy in the Democratic Party in the last five years than the likes of Bayh, Hillary Clinton, Biden and, now, Warner, apparently?
Nevermind the earlier, inane ramblings of Beinart and Marshall in their gung-ho support of the war (now in rapid retreat).
So why should we take anything these folks say as a guide to how to structure our party's stance on foreign policy?
Not only that, but why should we back off Bush and the corruption in the Republican Party at the very time we have these criminals back on their heels?
Because that is precisely the advice we are getting from Evan Bayh.
"Shut up and sit down. I, and my DLC colleagues, know what's best for us." (Reminds me of the Reagan years.)
Well, kiss my ass, Evan. You're wrong. Again. And that goes for the rest of your nimrod DLCers, too.