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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Stand still and lose
Boy this flap over Kerry's joke today is a load of crap and Kos has it covered as well as anyone. On the surface it doesn't do us any good but if the full text of Kerry's response gets enough play I think it is a net positive for us politically. If nothing else we should all pick up on the great sound bite he closed with:
"Cut and run" is a good bit of rhetorical jujitsu and "stand still and lose strategy" should feature prominently in every discussion we have about Bush and Iraq in the next week.Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they're afraid to debate real men. And this time it won't work because we're going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq .
And when I read this:
I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq.I just have to say "Go John!" (But then I also have to think, if he had talked like this 2 years ago W would now be stumbling his way around the rubber chicken circuit and begging Neil to let him tag along on one of his Thailand
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I might be biased (OK, of course I'm biased) but this year at least the worst offenders are overwhelmingly Republicans. Maybe it's just a factor of desperation and Dems are feeling safe enough to not stoop as low. The Democratic equivalent that springs to mind was from quite a few years ago when some members of the DC city council were up in arms because a politician described a budget as being "niggardly", a word that does not even have the same root as the racial epithet.
The thing that bothers me the most is that verbal gaffs wouldn't make a difference if people in general weren't so damn stupid. I mean, come on people, do you really base your vote on things like this?
Don't hold your breath.
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