06/13/05

Why are the Democrats such weenies? Howard Dean makes the unremarkable statement that the GOP is the party of white Christians, and other Democrats run and flee and say, 'Oh no, oh no!' And a Republican yahoo accuses Dean of 'political hate speech.' Neither 'white' nor 'Christian' is an epithet. A glance at the videotape from last year's Republican convention indicates that both characterizations are entirely fair. And yet some Democrats think Dean is being too confrontational. We should be nice to the lying liars or people will think we're, gasp, partisan. 'Partisan' is a good thing; it's what the Founding Fathers had in mind. The problem comes when one party stays very partisan and the other party starts modifying and mollifying and trying to find some mythical friendly center. I loved Mister Rogers, but I never thought he'd make a good chairman of the Democratic Party...

http://tinyurl.com/97mak

from San Francisco Chronicle, by Jon Carroll


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp