Matt Evans
A couple of months ago, I couldn’t figure out why the DNC couldn’t field any truly excellent candidates
That reminds me!
There was an amazing moment, Saturday night, where the wife said she couldn’t understand why the Democrats seem to have so little talent to draw upon (paraphrasing, so I don’t know if she’d agree with that characterization of what she said. It was something along those lines.)
My husband said, and you could have knocked me over with a feather (cliche!) something like (paraphrasing), “Right now conservatives are drawing smarter people to their views”—-something like that. (I bet that’s not what he’d say he said, but it was something along those lines. Conservative views and policies are a bigger draw for intelligent people at this time.)
The wife didn’t offer any argument that he was wrong.
All 4 of us had the exact same perception that, as I think DtP once put it (yes, Dennis, you are winning today’s popularity contest hands down, this in spite of the heels) the Democratic “bench” is shallow.
This is the biggest theme I’m hearing from ABB friends now.
Where are the smart, talented, charismatic Democratic Party leaders?
When you stop thinking about the race for a couple of seconds, and just imagine what it would be like to have John Kerry as the best your own party has to offer, it’s awful. It’s got to be demoralizing.
All 3 of felt the same way.
Why is John Kerry the best we can do?
As to the culture calming down, remember–and I think I’m right about this–we don’t need everyone to calm down; we just need your friends, the ones who got “sucked in” by moveon, etc., to calm down.
There’s a big huge wide swathe of ordinary common sense liberals out there, none of whom has even heard of Daily Koz, who could make their peace with 4 more years of George Bush if they were so inclined.
There will be forces acting on these folks to push them in that direction.
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
That’s probably a core principle of the psychology of democracy.
I think a decisive vote for George Bush will bring a large group of liberal voters back into the Commons.
