Tom Tomorrow says, rather correctly:
Many of the issues for which Democrats stand are highly divisivestem-cell research, gay rights, abortionand in their attempts to finesse that divisiveness, they often seem to stand for nothing at all. In their eagerness to appear reasonable and moderateand to avoid at all costs being tarred with the dread epithet "liberal"they become the enablers, the loyal opposition seeking common ground (even as the opposition is doing its best to destroy them and scorch the very earth where they once stood). Gosh, they say, maybe we should go to war in Iraq for no apparent reason, and maybe gay people don't deserve full and equal rights. And so on and so forth.
Republicans don't have this problem. Republicans are perfectly comfortable with what they are and what they stand for ("pure evil," the provocateur in me is compelled to suggest). They're the ones who hope to stack the judiciary with right-wing nut cases and eventually repeal Roe v. Wade. They're the ones who run up sky-high deficits in order to provide tax breaks for the rich. They're the ones with the aggressive facts-be-damned policy of pre-emptive warfare. They're the ones who exploit anti-gay bigotry and anti-science superstition and wrap the whole package up with a neat little red-white-and-blue bow and say, "This is what real Americans believe."
They may try to sugarcoat some of it, but they don't apologize for any of it.
So how do you fix the problem? Beat them at their own game, I say.
From Tom's blog:
I look at the big map and all of the red in flyover country and I feel like I've been locked in a room with the slow learners. We have become the country that pulls a dry cleaning bag over its head to play astronaut.
Insulting? Yes. Funny. You bet your ass.
Many of the issues for which Democrats stand are highly divisivestem-cell research, gay rights, abortionand in their attempts to finesse that divisiveness, they often seem to stand for nothing at all. In their eagerness to appear reasonable and moderateand to avoid at all costs being tarred with the dread epithet "liberal"they become the enablers, the loyal opposition seeking common ground (even as the opposition is doing its best to destroy them and scorch the very earth where they once stood). Gosh, they say, maybe we should go to war in Iraq for no apparent reason, and maybe gay people don't deserve full and equal rights. And so on and so forth.
Republicans don't have this problem. Republicans are perfectly comfortable with what they are and what they stand for ("pure evil," the provocateur in me is compelled to suggest). They're the ones who hope to stack the judiciary with right-wing nut cases and eventually repeal Roe v. Wade. They're the ones who run up sky-high deficits in order to provide tax breaks for the rich. They're the ones with the aggressive facts-be-damned policy of pre-emptive warfare. They're the ones who exploit anti-gay bigotry and anti-science superstition and wrap the whole package up with a neat little red-white-and-blue bow and say, "This is what real Americans believe."
They may try to sugarcoat some of it, but they don't apologize for any of it.
So how do you fix the problem? Beat them at their own game, I say.
From Tom's blog:
I look at the big map and all of the red in flyover country and I feel like I've been locked in a room with the slow learners. We have become the country that pulls a dry cleaning bag over its head to play astronaut.
Insulting? Yes. Funny. You bet your ass.
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It seems to run outta batteries waaaay too fast to just leave it on all day.... I suppose it has some "screen saver/ idle" mode? It's a Samsung/ Sprint phone. I suppose I could look up a website or use the (totally unhelpful) CD-ROM again, but I think I'll just ask my mommy...
"Paperboy!"