SOMETHING HAPPENS to a political party when it is not just out of power but has had to play on the home field of its opponents for a generation: It loses faith in itself and becomes scared.
Like the 98-pound weakling who lives in fear of the school bully, it will say anything to avoid being stuffed into a gym locker: I don't really believe in anything! I don't stand for anything! Please just leave me alone!
That this has become true in the Democratic Party is clear in listening to the worried words of pundits and political professionals who counsel Democrats to avoid offering any vision or direction for the country — to instead simply wait for voters to so tire of Republican mismanagement that they will turn to more "competent" Democrats to administer a conservative state.
Maureen Dowd, for instance, argued recently that "big ideas" don't matter — "what matters," she wrote, "is the bearer of an idea." James Carville — the architect of Bill Clinton's 1992 victory — told Newsweek that "the American people are going to be ready for an era of realism. They've seen the consequences of having too many 'big ideas.' "
Ouch! That's pretty plain talking.
This in addition to the LA Times charge that the Democrats are bankrupt of ideas.
It's a sad day in America when a Republican can deliver a more coherent agenda in a single paragraph than Ted Kennedy can in a four-page screed."
The LA Times attack on the left doesn't stop there. Far from it. The LA Times even takes on leftist hate monger "screw them" Kos.
And if that wasn't bad enough for Kos and his kool aid drinking kids, The New York Times has been trashing him lately.
No wonder Rove is smiling all the time. The Democrats are attacking each other all on their own. This is just to rich! I'm going to have a few Guiness and savor the moment.
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