Reply #36: this is NOT a "good write up" [View All]

it's a biased and partisan write up that cherry picks a couple of quotes from Mr. Rosenberg, without providing context, and uses those quotes to make a case against Mr. Rosenberg as DNC chair. Provide me the context and I would be willing to consider the case. Provide me a reason why these quotes should affect Mr. Rosenberg's ability to fill a non-ideological position.


I don't know whether I will support Mr. Rosenberg as DNC chair, but obvious hit pieces like this don't help the process. He's a viable candidate and deserves a more fair hearing than this article provides.


In the meantime, in the interest of equal time - here's an equally biased article in favor of Mr. Rosenberg


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from sterling Newberry

Simon Rosenberg should NOT be the DNC Chair. The Blogsphere should NOT support him.

Here is why:

1. Vision

Simon is well known as an individual of vision. We want a short sighted party, one that is always scrambling from one ad hoc battle to the next, with no idea of the future, and no ability to speak to the aspirations of Americans.

2. National Majority

Simon is well known as someone who wants the Democratic Party to nationalize the issues and seek a majority and governing coalition. We all know that the Democratic Party is much better off fighting every election over backyard issues, and having no principles that will get in the way.

3. Charisma

Having a DNC Chair who is sauve and engaging would ruin the party's long cultivated image of being boring and flat. People would begin to confuse us with Republicans, who are often telegenic. Don't undercut our brand! Boring is Beautiful!

4. Youth

The Democratic Party wants to be the party of old things, musty things, dry things, not the party of the future, and of an America that is part of the 21st century. Afterall in 1932, one speaker at the Democratic Convention stood up and said that there would never be any progress from Thomas Jefferson, and never should be. If it was good enough to win the election of 1808, it should be good enough to win the election of 2008.

5. Internet savvy

We don't want a DNC chair associated with new media, and the future of communications. In fact, we should go back to carving our message on clay tablets, because otherwise we will scare off people who still think the printing press is a controverial idea.

Where would we be in the blogsphere if we couldn't complain about the DNC? Think how many thousands of bloggers would be out of cheap sources of jokes. And being listened to. God, we'd all have a heart attack if that happened.

6. Integrity

The Democratic Party's long tradition is to create openings for the Republicans to question our integrity. Appointing an individual as soundly and squarly honest as Simon would be a major blow to this long standing policy.

7. Centrism

Simon is well known for believing that the future of the Democratic Party is as the standard bearer for the broad majority of Americans. Instead, we should appoint someone who is either a Zell out, so that we won't be attacked by Miller any more, or who has experience blowing leads in an election, to establish continuity with our recent past. Merely doing the greatest good for the greatest number by winning elections is so 20th century.

8. Message

Simon is well known as someone who believes that the Democratic party should have a harmonized message to take to voters, a clear and concise phrasing of why people are Democrats. The current cacophony was good enough to lose control of the governorships of the largest states, the Presidency, the Congress, the Supreme Court and the national agenda. Why mess with failure? It can't get any worse than this.

9. Broadmindedness

Simon is well known for being able to talk across the spectrum of the Democratic Party, and for opening doors. We want a cold, aloof, and closed party apparatus, lest the Republicans steal all our good ideas.

In fact, the only thing that can be said in his favor is that the New Democratic Network doesn't have one of those trendy browser icons. Don't need those either. After all, Martin van Buren didn't need them.