A commenter has tired of discussion of local politics and the ongoing Boland/Jacob soap opera, and has suggested that this blog instead devote itself to issues such as who would be the best Democrat presidential nominee in 2008, still three years away.
posted by The Inside Dope @ 4/08/2005
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The best ticket is a ticket from the heartland that can win the midwest which is the key to 2008:
Evan Bayh and Tom Vilsack, President and Vice President.
I think we have to run someone from the midwest or the south (sorry, John Kerry, but we've tried that northeast liberal stuff).
Let's go with Dick Durbin and Evan Bayh. Or lets go with John Edwards and Mary Kay Landrieu of Louisiana.
Evan Bayh? Bah! The last thing we need is a DLC candidate representing more of the same right-light corporate dominance oriented leadership that has been leading this country in the wrong way ever since Reagan.
If we run someone against the Republicans, it shouldn't be a DLC guy who caters to corporate dominance and continuing to lead us down the path of perpetual war rather than fixing the severe economic problems that is or will affect the majority of people in the country.
Are we really so far right that we think a moderate Republican disguised as a Democrat is our only salvation?
We need a change, not a DLC stooge.
Dick Durbin? Absolutely. The guy is no radical, but he's right on all the issues and not afraid to take a stand against right wing orthodoxy. Go Dick, go!
Wes Clark & Sen. Kerrey from Nebraska.
Hmm Anon. Aside from the fact that you can't get with the program and type in a name for your comment, I like it.
Wes Clark has a lot going for him, though he tends to have a bit of a problem communicating. The fact that he's not real slick and polished actually appeals to me, but in a national race, I think he'd be prone to slips of the tongue that the right would capitalize and exagerate into fake outrage, which is their specialty.
But he certainly should be a contender and deserves a place in the show. Clark is sharp, knowledgable, right on all the issues, likable, telegenic, and his military credentials are first rate, though that didn't stop some on the right and other Dems from trying to disparage his career and suggest he wasn't that great a general. As a matter of fact, they even got some far right generals to come out and smear him as a general.
As far as the Bob Kerry, he has a lot to bring to the table as well, though the right would have a field day with him as well.
Of course the right would no doubt smear and destroy Jesus himself if he were running.
For that matter, the right-loving DLC Dems would mock the Prince of Peace for being a fringe anti-war loser with no crediblity and no appeal to southern males.
The Dems need to first find someone to step up to the plate who can anticipate and counter anything that Karl Rove can create and muster into a campaign ideal/candidate.
Without a master spin artist, it would seem that any candidate can be sunk by the Right wing folks out there. After all, they have it all. They have the rich folks who vote Republican no matter who - W is proof of that --and then they have the southern Democrats easily swayed by such issues that cause emotion and ultimately do not affect any type of commerce or industry or jobs - like abortion or say "right to die". Heck they are already setting the stage with the Terry Shiavo nightmare.
It will be a tough road too and a big challenge. James Carville could do it but would he? He's making too much money being James Carville to care about it now. That's a shame cause we need someone like him to stand behind the scenes - even if it were a person of great caliber and a fine candidate like Dick Durbin as the candidate, Dick's message could get lost in the hogwash that the Right wingers would start spreading.
And the journalists of the 60s and 70s are long gone and replaced with folks who don't remember JFK and don't remember the Peace Corps or any of the things that were the fabric of their parents upbringing. So thus, we get corporate owned and spun reporting in most outlets and we get the sensationalized news to educate the "uneducated" electorate and get the angry white males out to help vote in the right wing candidates qualified to hold office or not -- again I point to W as a fine example.
Yeah, get a stratigist first - THEN get a good candidate in that order. Otherwise the Dems are sunk once again.
Anon...damn your hide. Pick a name! You deserve credit for your posts. That analysis was excellent. I agree wholeheartedly.
OK, here's my name; Rawk Eyelund. I'm the Clark, Kerrey fan. It would be interesting to see how the next Republican chicken hawk to run for Prez would smear a pair like that. But, we know they'll try.
Hmm, yet another attempt to steer the blog away from Boland/Jacobs. What's going on here? ha!
I do cover issues of national interest on a regular basis. However, you'll notice that they often go without a single comment.
Apparently no one has anything to say on anything other than the rather incestuous world of local politics.
Obama of course, has a lot of appeal, but after having heard his performance in committee, including yesterday's confirmation hearings on John Bolton for U.N. Ambassador, I really have my doubts that he's ready for prime time.
He really sounds like a cross between the late Paul Simon of IL and John Conyers of MI, though Obama's vocal cadence may not quite as slow as Conyers.
He's good, and what he says is solid, but his effect on listeners can really can be like a human Sominex.
Of course, contrast that with his bravado delivery of his speech at the Democratic Convention, which shows that if he has to turn it on, he can.
I'd just point you to my last paragraph where I noted
"Of course, contrast that with his bravado delivery of his speech at the Democratic Convention, which shows that if he has to turn it on, he can."
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