Jonathan Rowe of Yes Magazine: "Don't talk like a twit"

[Alpharetta]

I like some of what he says here. The wimp factor is hurting us. We need to hit harder.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17361

From the middle of the editorial:

I have thought of that conversation often over the years, as I have watched Democrats and progressives flounder in the face of a Republican assault. I think of it in particular when I hear them talk. The president's tax cut package was "risky" and "ill-advised." Risky? Since when are we Americans afraid of risk? Ill-advised? That's the way lawyers talk, and we know how people feel about them.


Recently, President Bush, in a typical display of armchair bravado, declared of the guerilla fighters in Iraq, "Bring 'em on." Here's a man who avoided service in Vietnam, talking tough and leaving it to others to walk his talk. But how did the Democrats respond? The President showed "tremendous insensitivity," said Howard Dean. John Kerry called for more "thoughtfulness and statesmanship."


Worthy sentiments all. But these Democrats were letting Bush have the Clint Eastwood role while they played Marian the Librarian. Listen to Democrats and progressives these days and you often hear a neutered language that is part Ivy League policy salon, part Beltway operative, and part sensitivity training class. A favorite term of disapproval is "inappropriate," which means, essentially, ill mannered. We talk propriety while they talk right and wrong.

[billbuckhead]

1. The coming Dean disaster could be the Clark or Kerry realignment.......

of American politics. We can't build our party around a guy who got out of Vietnam to go skiing.

[Jim Sagle]

2. Chickenshit bullshit.

[TygrBright]

3. I don't know whether you've noticed, but...

...the GOPpies have had fabulous success with just exactly this tactic.

observantly,
Bright