Reply #36: Political pot shots [View All]

All of it. Right now there is a clip in GD or GDP of Al Gore and the poster wants to spread it around to help combat the stiff and boring image. The stiff and boring image that John Kerry's charisma was supposed to help with in 2000. The stiff and boring image that worked so well on Al Gore, that it was recycled for 2004. How fucking stupid are we.

"unelectable" is primary politics. I said alot of things about Howard Dean during the primaries, it doesn't mean I believed it all. And even if I did, it sure doesn't mean I'd repeat ANY of it to a potential voter, I rarely repeat any of it even on DU. But not the Dem bashers. They'll say any fucking thing to pile on and advance their own agenda, even if the majority of the country doesn't want to buy what they're selling.

And what kind of candidates have been winning? Schweitzer, Salazars, Kaine. Who won in Illinois yesterday? Not the darlings of the blogosphere.

It's going to take more than "the base" screaming "chickenhawk" to win in 2006.