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WHY ONLY GORE CAN BEAT HILLARY

Mon Oct 17, 2005 at 09:51:35 AM PDT

It looks like the beltway folks are listening to what we are saying.

 The New Republic Online

The Case for Staying in Iraq

Thu Oct 06, 2005 at 09:29:17 AM PDT

I know that I will get slammed for this diary like few people have ever been slammed on KOS before but if this really is a place to discuss ideas then I Think it is necessary for someone to have the guts to make this case.  

Let me start off with the obvious disclaimer.  GOING INTO IRAQ WAS AN AWFUL IDEA.  IT WAS ONE OF THE WORST IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS UNION.  MORE POPLE SHOULD HAVE HAD THE BALLS TO SAY SOMETHING WHEN WE WERE GETTING READY FOR WAR.   I WILL NOT ARGUE FOR A SECOND THAT THIS WAR WAS A GOOD IDEA.  

BooMan23 proves that David Brooks is Wrong

Thu Sep 29, 2005 at 10:24:27 AM PDT

I have never written a diary before because I am not a great writer and because i do not have much time but here it goes.

Today in the New York Times David Brooks Says

Will we learn from DeLay's fall about the self-destructive nature of the team mentality? Of course not. The Democrats have drawn the 10-years-out-of-date conclusion that in order to win, they need to be just like Tom DeLay. They need to rigidly hew to orthodoxy. They need Deaniac hyperpartisanship. They need to organize their hatreds around Bush the way the Republicans did around Clinton.

The old team is dead. Long live the new team.

I personally think that we do need hyperpartisanship and unity to beat the Republicans.  The Republicans beat us not because there ideas are better or because they are more in the mainstream.  They win for two major reasons.  The first is that they have the will to use sleezy tactics that we will not and because they get in line behind their people in a way we never will.  

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