MA Special Election – Instant Thoughts
Here are my initial, ill considered and unsubstantiated thoughts about yesterdays election.
The Bad:
Coakley was an abysmal candidate. Their is absolutely no excuse for the complacency that she showed. She may have received bad advice but that doesn’t matter, it was her candidacy. She now has to live with the consequences of her defeat and I suspect that won’t be pleasant.
Saying that, it is becoming apparent that Tim Keane is not an effective DNC Chair. Howard Dean had a definite plan for revitalizing the Democratic party and was an extremely effective organizer. The impression with Keane is one of drift.
Not many are saying this but I think that the media really does have to take a long hard look at itself. They are allowing fascism to flourish due to their insistence on covering everything as equal, a substantial well thought out position is given exactly the same weight as a wacko pulled out of someones rear end a minute before airtime. I am not talking about Fox News here – they are a known quantity and people make the required allowances, The networks and especially CNN are the big offenders.
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Categories: politics Tags: 2010, Democrats, DNC, GOP, MA election, Massachussetts, Republicans
Letter from a Republican
An excellent post over at the Liberal / progressive blog Talking Points Memo takes apart a post at Redstate, a Right wing extremest blog. The Redstate poster decided to write an open letter in an attempt to reach out to the black population, obviously doing this because they care deeply and not because they are hemorrhaging support from their traditional Demographics.
Originally I was going to pick out a few choice paragraphs but the masterpiece really has to be taken as a whole:
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