Mingle Until Departure: Self-Importance

1.2.05

Self-Importance

As background to this post, understand that at this hour it appears Howard Dean is, basically, a lock for DNC Chair, Martin Frost having dropped out earlier today and more or less conceded to Dean.

I've had trouble figuring out the right tone for this post, but here goes: to anyone out there who's saying that that Howard Dean will "destroy" the Democratic Party, or who has "grave concerns" about "what might happen," or some similarly-phrased tut-tutting, please feel free to try and shut the fuck up. I'm going to go slowly and use small words, to best encourage understanding.

One man does not make or destroy a party. Bill Clinton, the most gifted politician of our generation, a Southern Guy who could Talk to Bubba, who was the most popular president ever just five years ago, clearly did not actually have that much of an impact on the Democratic Party (esp. vis a vis its long-term appeal to Southerners, etc.). Terry McAuliffe, the last chair, could not be named by most Democrats - I dare even you, nerdo, to name the chair who preceded McAuliffe. Howard Dean will not destroy the Democratic Party, in no small part because - pay attention here -
The Democratic Party is already locked out of power in national politics in every meaningful way. Things are already broken - the Democratic Party just three months ago could not win an election against the most unpopular president ever.

Kindly, kindly, tell me how things can really get worse, and how Tim Roemer was going to keep those things from happening.

Moving on - tomorrow, more about robots.

perma-linky posted by jkd : 23:05