The ultra-predictable response to Glenn's anti Blue Dog post is an endless series of mini-screeds against "purity."
The answer to any and all concerns about Obama's and the Dem Congress's bottomless pit of capitulation is "perfect is the enemy of good" or "We're 2% less shitty than Pure Evil! It's all we've got!"
What the fuck is wrong with those of us who fail to see the genius and morality behind Democrats endlessly and reflexively doing and saying the wrong things, so the whole elected bunch can — and assuredly will — hop into the world's largest phonebooth in January and emerge as Superprogressives?
Sorry, Mom. Hope isn't just a plan, it's the only plan.
Impurity is the new purity, bitch. Mangia!
(More about Glenn's post here.)
UPDATE: Glenn learns his lesson(s), including...
The 2006 election wasn't the time to reform the Democratic Party because taking control of Congress was too important a goal to jeopardize with fixation on issues.
The 2008 election is not the time to reform the Democratic Party because electing Obama is too important a goal to jeopardize with fixation on issues.
The 2010 election won't be the time to reform the Democratic Party because keeping and expanding the Democratic majority in Congress for Obama will be too important a goal to jeopardize with fixation on issues.
The 2012 election won't be the time to reform the Democratic Party because re-electing Obama will be too important a goal to jeopardize with fixation on issues.
Come back in 2014 with your Purist Fixation on "Issues" -- all this nattering about the Constitution and war and habeas corpus and torture and all of that irritating ideological purist garbage -- and maybe then they'll be some time to worry about all that (though that's doubtful, since there will be a Really Important Midterm Election in 2014 that will determine who will control Congress for Obama's last two years in office, and keeping Democratic control of Congress will almost certainly be too important a goal to jeopardize with some purist fixation on issues.).
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not a question of purity
some of us just think it is a losing strategy, putting aside the question of whether you think Greenwald would know a better Democrat if he saw one.
Funny
I never heard Obama supporters attacking the purity meme during the primary, when they were attacking Hillary for her AUMF vote constantly (without noting that every Presidential candidate who was actually, you know, in a position to vote on AUMF, voted yes), as well as for a slew of other votes she made during the very Republican 2001-2004 years.
They preferred a pure enigma (who was not really that enigmatic when you looked closely, which appears to have been something Obamabots were incapable of; Obama's very limited voting record in the Senate strongly suggested that he was further right than Hillary, including on Iraq (!)) over someone who had established a record of votes and leadership, who was not perfect but good.
Glenn learns his lessons -- see update!
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"Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow...
... but never jam today!" As Lewis Carroll wrote in Alice in Wonderland.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
they've become a Republican/rw mob--and for what?
what do any of us get out of taking the WH at the cost of fully becoming GOP? (it's beyond Republican-lite at this point)
A Democrats year
Too bad the only two major parties in this country are the GOP and the FKD. The goals of the Democratic Party (or the Old Racist Party, ORP) are not necessarily the major goals of either current parties. And since FKD wants to reach out more to the Bush/GOP enabling independents than ORP, the FKD policy platform will go further and further from ORP. Deal with it. After Obama is elected (which I think is more unlikely than likely), FKD will even further move from ORP.