Hillary Clinton: Too Much of a Clinton Democrat?
I wrote a long posting about this and it got deleted :( Anyways since no one else is reading this, I'll cut to the chase. Kos is right that we should move away from Washington Insiders. He's totally wrong about the netroots being some sort of mainstream. It's just another special interest group. They are obssesed with their media and being invited to the table. Most importantly they are mad at W. Additionally they feel they are the only ones in touch with the mainstream. This righteousness is the same as the black or gray panthers. Environmentalists feel that they are the only ones that can comment on ANWR. If they don't see themselves for what they are, Kos is blind to the truth.
The reforms of the 70s to have more open elections and primaries have dramatically changed the democratic party (mainly by killing any sort of power it had). The motivated primary workers and funders are motivated by something, usually anger. These guys are helpful to anyone running i February when no one else cares. They are special interest groups. Getting elected in November is much more difficult than you can imagine as you have to shift over to the motivated voter. For Dems there is no core voter they haven't already reached. They have to go to the independent voters. When the party panders to special interest groups, they lose these voters.
I wrote a long posting about this and it got deleted :( Anyways since no one else is reading this, I'll cut to the chase. Kos is right that we should move away from Washington Insiders. He's totally wrong about the netroots being some sort of mainstream. It's just another special interest group. They are obssesed with their media and being invited to the table. Most importantly they are mad at W. Additionally they feel they are the only ones in touch with the mainstream. This righteousness is the same as the black or gray panthers. Environmentalists feel that they are the only ones that can comment on ANWR. If they don't see themselves for what they are, Kos is blind to the truth.
The reforms of the 70s to have more open elections and primaries have dramatically changed the democratic party (mainly by killing any sort of power it had). The motivated primary workers and funders are motivated by something, usually anger. These guys are helpful to anyone running i February when no one else cares. They are special interest groups. Getting elected in November is much more difficult than you can imagine as you have to shift over to the motivated voter. For Dems there is no core voter they haven't already reached. They have to go to the independent voters. When the party panders to special interest groups, they lose these voters.
posted by Spud at 8:08 AM
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*fingers crossed* Please, please, please let us find a candidate other than Hillary Clinton. The only person more divisive than W, we can expect no national political healing under a new Clinton administration. Can someone please take the pulse of the small part of the US that lies between New York and Los Angeles? Yeah, the one that elects presidents? If Vilsack can't pull off a legitimate candidacy, my early vote is in the McCain hat...
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