September 14, 2004

Yes, exactly, the answer just might be nothing

Why is it that we on the left, by a little or by a lot, just can't seem to resist second-guessing ourselves, our candidate, our party etc., and so publicly.

Even when the gist of blogger Matt Yglesias' post is that there may be nothing wrong with the Kerry campaign, with an entry title like "What's wrong with the Kerry campaign?", you're not going to send that message to the many who scroll through their news readers.

This just takes me back, as so many things I read and hear do, over and over, to just how sick I am of Democrats eating their young.

Bush doesn't even need to bother attacking Kerry. People on Kerry's own side will do it for him.

For example: I am a big admirer of Mario Cuomo, but honestly, did he need to give this advice to Kerry via a reporter? Are you telling me he couldn't call him up or send him an email and give it privately without airing these condescending bits of laundry publicly?

Feh.

Posted by elisa at September 14, 2004 10:19 AM | Polls

Comments

The problem with Kerry and all Democrats since JFK is they ignore the true intentions of our republic. America was not founded on the concept of runaway liberalism. It is true that Washington, Jefferson, and Madison etc. were liberals of their time however they would never have supported the motives of modern day liberalism. Most Americans believe in individualism. The GOP and the right have always preached this philosophy since their roots with the Wigs and abolitionist movements of the 19th century. (Which most of most of your readers probably know nothing about.)? Americans are the last independent thinking people living in the West. We are proud of who we are and don't like government telling us how to live our lives. It's time for those of you on the left to stop calling for Utopia and start acting like realist. The American Revolution was fought and won with blood against socialist centralization, we need not return to it through modern liberalism.

Posted by: Frank at September 17, 2004 10:57 PM

Sure. I can agree with you. But as long as we're talking about government staying out of things, let's agree on them staying out of my bedroom and my body etc.

It's the hypocrisy of supporting only selective individualism - when it benefits the already wealthy - that bothers me.

Posted by: Elisa at September 19, 2004 07:22 PM