Posted on 12/07/2004 4:14:40 PM PST by RWR8189
For Peter Beinart, it's 1950.
Beinart-Skipper: TNR's Peter Beinart argues that, just as liberals needed to purge non-anti-Communists from their ranks in the late 1940s, Democrats need to purge today's "heirs of Henry Wallace"--specifically, Michael Moore and MoveOn--who do "not believe there is a terrorist threat." It's a powerful analogy, and running Moore out of the party might well give any Democratic candidate an essential anti-Souljah credibility. But!
1) Beinart says
The left's post-September 11 enthusiasm for an aggressive campaign against Al Qaeda--epitomized by students at liberal campuses signing up for jobs with the CIA--was overwhelmed by horror at the bungled Iraq war.
There are two rhetorical tricks at work here. First is the conceit, among Iraq war supporters, that what's gone wrong in Iraq must be the product of administration "bungling." There has been bungling, of course. But it's not at all clear that a lot of the problems we've encountered could have been avoided by the best planning and diplomacy in the world. Maybe there were big problems inherent in the whole project. This is the possibility--that the decision to go to war itself was wrong--that vehement talk of bungling conveniently excludes. Was what we've faced in Iraq really what even the editors of the New Republic thought we'd face?
2) The second trick is the cunning exclusion of a sensible middle position--the anti-terrorist, anti-Iraq War position. Beinart supports
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TURBO LAX !!!!
6 Beers, 6 Hard Boiled Eggs, 6 Chili Dogs w/kraut ==
Mark of the Beast!!
It is difficult for me to understand all of the articles and posts designed to point the democrats to a comeback trail. Screw them. Let them writh in their inadequacy.
They've also quite effectively purged any significant pro-life voices from the Democratic party.
I can't wait to read Katrine vanden Heuvel's reply to Beinart's article...
MoveOn.org and Michael Moore aren't going anywhere. The party leadership understands quite well that their base consists of brainless human wreckage.
It is more likely that they'll end up purging the few remaining heirs of George Wallace, Sam Nunn and Zell Miller.
Only if everyone to the left of Joseph Lieberman is sent to a Gulag!
"What Would Uncle Joe Do?"
i think a full box enema of alumn after the POS ate his fill of the new 1495 calorie monster burger.
i know, it would take soros to fund the dinner but the image adds new meaning to "the squirts".
Go over to the DU and check this thread out: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2798390. The left is already fighting amongst themselves over whether Howard Dean is a good thing for the Democrats. Hilarious! It will only get better as 2006 gets closer. The extremists already control the Democratic base, and they will lead the liberals off another cliff in 2006.
Looks like another episode of the DUmmie Funnies LOL.
Hillary needs the current crop of dem leadership, to make her look like a moderate to voters. She is right of Ol'Feckless Kerry, but that still places her left of Mars.
Sure, the Democrats will purge their rank and file of people with moderate, pro-market leanings...and then die.
Only if the purge relates to a breach of the oath of office for all three branches of government, AND BOTH major party office holders are 'purged'. That should rid us of the legislative, judicial and administrative branches.
President Jefferson said we should clean house every twenty years. We're way overdue.
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