Since Markos has blessed CT-Sen diaires, you might want to know what another genius pundit windbag this time,
Jonathan Alter at Newsweek, is writing in the current issue about
Daily Kos, Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont.
You can bet good money you'll be seeing him pontificating everywhere this week, spewing forth this garbage. Time to tell him why he's so fucking wrong--asshole, moron.
What Alter is doing in my opinion is called fear mongering. He absurdly links the defeat of Joe Lieberman to the election of Richard Nixon.
This kind of bullshit nonsense must be defeated and silenced today.
This is Alter's dangerous take home message:
The revival of the romance of the antiwar left is a potential disaster for the Democrats. It's what gave the world Richard Nixon in 1968.
A cannabalistic distraction?
But there's something psychologically deeper going on in this campaign that is both understandable and depressing--a cannibalistic distraction from what should be the top priority of Democrats, namely booting Republicans. The same Democrats who are justifiably angry with Lieberman for not holding Bush accountable are harming efforts to, well, hold Bush accountable
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In Mr. Alter's mind, Mr. Lieberman is a "collegial moderate". And the fact that we simply support a Democratic primary is a "potential disaster for the Democrats".
Now am I crazy or something? I should feel like I'm committing a crime because I think it's appropriate for an 18-year incumbent to have a primary challenger? Or does Joe own the senate seat? Is it appropriate to feel the tiniest sense of outrage that said incumbent says he will refuse to abide by the results of said "democratic" primary?
At the same time, the Senate needs collegial moderates who work across party lines. It's the only way to stop the really bad stuff. And the revival of the romance of the antiwar left is a potential disaster for the Democrats. That's what gave the world Richard Nixon in 1968, when ideologically pure liberals who had backed Eugene McCarthy in the primaries refused to rally around Hubert Humphrey because Humphrey was "complicit" in the Vietnam War machine. Clinton managed to forge a pragmatic center for Democrats, which is why he didn't hesitate to campaign last week for Lieberman. Clinton's strong support may well pull the man who once called his behavior "disgraceful" over the finish line. It's also a warm-up for selling his pro-war wife to skeptical liberals.
The damn "noisy" bloggers--you and me. We should just shut the fuck up and sit down. And, according to Mr. Alter we're also pointless and worthless.
The bloggers who have noisily intervened deny they're interested in ideological purity. They point to their support in Senate races for pro-life candidates. But on Iraq, the liberal blogs brook no dissent. Not that it matters in Connecticut. If Lamont wins, only the laziest analysts can attribute it to the Netroots. Daily Kos is not exactly Topic A in the diners and union halls of the Nutmeg State.
How will these professional fools spin the new world order on August 9th after Lamont wins?
I'll make a prediction, you and I are going to be responsbile for the demise of the Democratic Party.
Just for the record, I'm not a "lefty lunatic".
As I said yesterday, I'm a 40-something, Jewish female. I work hard, I pay taxes, I'm a patriotic American and I support primaries, I support challengers and I support Ned Lamont.