Out with the old, in with the new!
The lavish party for Mr. McAuliffe on Thursday night stood in stark contrast to the casual beer-and-nachos event held for Dr. Dean a night earlier.
Good riddance. This is what's wrong with the current party, and what's right about Dean.
So thanks Terrry. For nothing!
Update [2005-2-11 15:33:46 by Lud]:Ok, I obviously touched a nerve here. Pardon my initial brevity; as one poster put it, I assumed McAuliffe's incompetence (as measured in getting electoral results) was a given. Additionally, crying baby in left hand one handed typing with right doesn't allow for much specificity. But since he's in bed now...
Let me explain. I am not one to support the famed 11th commandment, never to criticize a democrat. But I am also not one to scapegoat, and that was not what I was trying to do with this diary.
What I found compelling about that snip above was the difference between Mcauliffe's star studded high priced fancy ass celebrity friendly schmooze fest style, and Dean's regular democrat ideologically motivated let's get down to business style. I'm about as close to a marxist as you can get and still be engaged in American politics, and frankly, the big money fund raising galas that are getting praise in the comments to my diary disgust me.
I'm sorry, They make me sick. What the fuck good did all that celebrity fund raising do us in the last 10 years? What has Terry Mcauliffe done to build the democratic party in the last 10 years? You insiders here can scold me about not knowing what it's all about, underapreciating what terry did for the party, call my point of view bullshit, but there is a reason why way too fucking many democrats get seduced by the quixotic ralph nader types, and Mcauliffe, for all his strengths, is the public face of it.
And I for one am glad he's retiring. I take back my title--he doesn't deserve that. But I hope his exit and dean's entrance is a signal of a new democratic party built on real people instead of "high net worth individuals." Because all the celebrity money in the world apparently can't buy electoral victory.