Looking at my first blog posts yesterday, here's one from my first weeks doing this, written in the depths of the Bush II - Electoral College - Rehnquist Court imposed presidency. I think it's still valid as we hear people telling Democrats to "move on" and forget the Trump crime spree which is at fever pitch. If Putin isn't running this non-transition, I'll eat a MAGA hat. I hadn't started titling my posts yet, which strikes me as a missed opportunity for making a bad pun.
Oh, oh..... you just know it's a' coming, ..... can't win...... always
the way it is. They always get away with it..... Oh, they're......
they're coming up right behind..... 's nothing we can do.....
OooooOhhhhh!
Heard enough? Tired of the hand wringing and
moaning about how Karl Rove is going to turn everything we do against us
and win? Every single opportunity fate sends us, every Republican
scandal, every Republican disaster, every split in the Republican ranks
is accompanied by the bleated warnings that if Democrats so much as
allude to their crimes and screw-ups the omnipotent Karl Rove is going
to use his magic mirror of Republican refraction and send it back at us,
an intensified death ray. If it had happened as often as the sirens
of doom had sounded we'd have been pools of ash a decade ago.
This
attitude could be one of two things, professional Democratic doomsters
getting into a swivet on cue or Republicans getting the Democratic
doomsters worked up. On cue.
It's time to tell our Cassandras
to dry up. That part of the routine doesn't depend on what we do. We
don't have to do a thing. If we don't do anything the Republicans just
make up a story and snivel and moan about that. "Travelgate",
"transition vandalism" Oreo peltings"? If we sat quietly with our hands
folded and smiled pleasantly while they drove a tank over us it
wouldn't matter. Republicans and their media whores would say that we
were being nice to them in the meanest possible way. You'd hear Chris
Matthews say it. Anyone know if he has yet?
The most absurd
form of this is when Democratic pundits council strategic losing of
entire elections. Claiming we can gain advantage by losing. As if
that's been such a success. If you could lose your way to political
victory the Democratic Party would be set for a run of fifty good years.
Here's a bit of news for them, winning an election is not an
optional preference. It's essential. If we give up before we get to
the track the effect is exactly the same as it would be if we made the
worst series of political blunders in history and lost it all. The
Republicans have made the worst series of blunders in history. Do you
hear their pundits advising them to give it up? Maybe it's not the
blunders, its the dunderheads who council capitulation.
If we're
going to pay a political price for doing nothing why don't we try doing
some damage to them in the process? Are our nervous nellies afraid
that we'll get into trouble for giving the Republicans a bloody nose?
Are they afraid of the terrible consequences of winning a fight? Any
Democratic pundit who tells us to win by losing might have made their
cabloid career but that's no reason for us to listen to them. Traitors
or idiots, the results are the same. Put them out, never let them get
away with having a "D" under their name on the screen again. Throw
them out of the party.
Rarely there might be reasons for
Democrats to lay low, the certainly of setting off the Republican
lies-o-matic isn't one of them. Never is Republican victory so certain
as when the Democratic worry trolls wrap it up and hand it to them with a
bow and a bow.
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