Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing
The loony Left fringe can intermittently bleat and moan about 2008 Democrat presidential nominee-in-everything-but-name Hillary Clinton all it wants, but in the end it's nothing that Queen Cone-Calves will ever have to be concerned about:
So much for that being a "centrist" organization. As for "truly interested in bringing the various factions of the party together," Kos disrobed that canard himself:
This next comment from another neoBolshevik is even lamer hollow-chest-thumping:
That "activist resurgence" is what has the Democrat Party spiraling down the national political bowl toward a generation or more in the minority - where, not coincidentally, they've already been for the past decade already. This, of course, Mrs. Clinton also knows, and that the remedy for that decline is to drag the Clintons' centrist mask back over the Hickeys and Kosacks and Sorosians and Moore-ons so that red-state voters might once again have to weigh the two major party candidates on Election Day before pulling the lever (or whatever) instead of just looking for the "R" and otherwise doing a lot of chuckling and eye-rolling. And the fringies don't want to go back into "masquerade." They like it out in the open, no matter how much it damages their chances of ever again being on the winning side.
But don't underestimate that last factor. Remember that people like Kos and Hickey were also all the way for Dr. Demented in the runup to the '04 Donk primaries, and that nominating electorate - which was a lot bigger than the Deaniac population - pulled up on the reins at the last moment before plunging over the cliff and opted for a more "electable" candidate instead.
That that turned out to be John Kerry, who subsequently became thoroughly "deanized" himself, and resumed the cliff-dive onto the electoral rocks below, only underscores the point: loud, bitter, angry extremists don't win; if you don't win, you can't advance your agenda; and there's only so much that the courts can do in a conventional time frame.
Hillary Clinton wants to win. And she's doing what she needs to do - intermittently, at least - to ensure that she does.
When 2008 rolls around, Kos and Hickey and the rest will be lined right up behind her. Because, in the immortal words of Bobby "the Brain" Heenan, "The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it."
Left-wing bloggers are blasting 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for snubbing them and siding instead with the Democratic Leadership Council - a group Mrs. Clinton addressed on Monday.And what is the NDN, you might ask?
The Daily Kos, for instance, slammed Hillary's DLC call for party unity as "truly disappointing."
In quotes picked up by the Washington Post, Kos complained: "If she wanted to give a speech to a centrist organization truly interested in bringing the various factions of the party together, she could've worked with NDN."
The NDN is the New Democrat Network, with which Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas is associated.
So much for that being a "centrist" organization. As for "truly interested in bringing the various factions of the party together," Kos disrobed that canard himself:
"Instead," he lamented, "she plans on working with the DLC to come up with some common party message yadda yadda yadda.Well, no, not after hard-left kooks like Kos get finished blasting it into tiny bite-size cheesy poohs. Though it did help "the party" elect a president once upon a time. Something that Mrs. Clinton doesn't appear to have forgotten. I guess zealotry is a stimulant for absent-mindedness.
"Well, that effort is dead on arrival," said Kos. "The DLC is not a credible vehicle for such an effort. Period."
This next comment from another neoBolshevik is even lamer hollow-chest-thumping:
Roger Hickey, co-director of the liberal Campaign for America's Future, told the Post that the former first lady's craven crawl to the center could put her bid for the 2008 presidential nomination in jeopardy.
"There has been an activist resurgence in the Democratic Party in recent years, and Hillary risks ensuring that there's a candidate to her left appealing to those activists who don't much like the DLC," he said.
That "activist resurgence" is what has the Democrat Party spiraling down the national political bowl toward a generation or more in the minority - where, not coincidentally, they've already been for the past decade already. This, of course, Mrs. Clinton also knows, and that the remedy for that decline is to drag the Clintons' centrist mask back over the Hickeys and Kosacks and Sorosians and Moore-ons so that red-state voters might once again have to weigh the two major party candidates on Election Day before pulling the lever (or whatever) instead of just looking for the "R" and otherwise doing a lot of chuckling and eye-rolling. And the fringies don't want to go back into "masquerade." They like it out in the open, no matter how much it damages their chances of ever again being on the winning side.
But don't underestimate that last factor. Remember that people like Kos and Hickey were also all the way for Dr. Demented in the runup to the '04 Donk primaries, and that nominating electorate - which was a lot bigger than the Deaniac population - pulled up on the reins at the last moment before plunging over the cliff and opted for a more "electable" candidate instead.
That that turned out to be John Kerry, who subsequently became thoroughly "deanized" himself, and resumed the cliff-dive onto the electoral rocks below, only underscores the point: loud, bitter, angry extremists don't win; if you don't win, you can't advance your agenda; and there's only so much that the courts can do in a conventional time frame.
Hillary Clinton wants to win. And she's doing what she needs to do - intermittently, at least - to ensure that she does.
When 2008 rolls around, Kos and Hickey and the rest will be lined right up behind her. Because, in the immortal words of Bobby "the Brain" Heenan, "The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it."
posted by JASmius at 1:21 PM
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