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August 25, 2005
Dems On A Leash
George Will on The Left's Folly:
MoveOn.org, which claims 3.3 million members and is becoming a tone-setting tail that wags the Democratic Party dog that is mostly such tails, adopted Sheehan during her Crawford demonstration, organizing 1,627 vigils around the country to express solidarity with her. But the Democratic Party [...] is not ripe for lessons in temperate rhetoric, which may be why the Republican Party has far fewer worries than it deserves.
[The Republican Party] is showing signs of becoming an exhausted volcano. Regarding Iraq, it is mistaking truculent asperity and tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence. Regarding domestic policy, intellectual anemia has given rise to behavioral patterns not easily distinguished from corruption, as with the energy and transportation bills. Yet the Democratic Party, which by now can hardly remember the far-distant past when it was a volcano not of molten rhetoric but of serious thought, seems preoccupied with the chafing around its neck. The chafing is caused by the leashes firmly gripped and impudently jerked by various groups like MoveOn.org that insist the party adopt hysteria as a policy by treating the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts as a dire threat to liberty.
The emphases are mine.
In a recent post, I expressed my worry that this administration is stretching its luck--it is wasting too many opportunities, opportunities hard-won in Iraq by our exemplary military, and here at home by people like Ken Mehlman and all the grass roots Republican election volunteers.
But the Republicans remain the only rational choice. Until the Dems rid themselves of the hysterical antiwar anarchists (and until the remainder of the party quits enabling them) they will continue to lose elections. As Will points out, it will be interesting to watch Hillary in the coming months: Since the hysteria-mongers are a threat to her effort to recast herself as a moderate, she might be the one to initiate the purge her party so desperately needs.
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Comments
I don't see that happening. I see Hillary doing the same thing Kerry did in '04: trying to have it both ways. It's unfortunate that this tactic works on so many.
Posted by: The_Bad at August 25, 2005 08:42 PM
Maybe not; but it will be interesting to watch it play out. She's not like the late lamented Yassar Arafat: she can't give flamethrowing hate-filled speeches in Arabic, while mouthing peace-seeking platitudes to the West.
Posted by: Jeff at August 26, 2005 01:46 AM
