Last night, Rachael Maddow dissed Democrats who worked

[No Elephants]

for Eugene McCarthy and Howard Dean in their respective primaries. She used them to lead into a discussion of people working for Romney and offending voters.

Guess she could not possibly find prior examples of Republicans offending voters, so she had to go to McCarthy and Dean.

Among other things, she blamed McCarthy volunteers for Johnson's dropping out of the Presidential race. Not Johnson's Vietnam War policies, mind you, but the kids who tried to "stay clean for Gene."

And you know what happened after Johnson dropped out. RFK was assassinated and Nixon beat the hell out of Humphrey, Johnson's Vice President, who did not disavow the war early enough or strongly enough.

Surprised she did not explicitly blame McCarthy volunteers for those things, too, only for Johnson's dropping out. For once, she left viewers to do the math.


Apparently, there is room under the big tent for everyone but a Democrat who is not a neoliberal and refuses to become one. ("But....we all bundle.")


Last night may just have been the last Rachael Maddow show I will watch.

No big deal. Her snarking and grinning as she explained the day's events to fifth graders (or so it seemed) was wearing on me anyway.

Politics may be all a big, fun joke to her and some of the other MSNBC commentators, all of whom are in the 99%, I;m buessing, but politicians have the lives and well-being of Americans in their hands and they are not being especially careful with them.

Almost as bad, media is not calling them out on it, as it has a responsiblity to do, unless they are members of the "other" Party.

None of that is big inside joke to most of us.

Democrats who want to expunge liberals from the Party may just succeed, proving the admonition, "Be careful what you wish for."

[Enthusiast]

1. I have it on my DVR. I will watch it shorty.

I was there. I watched LBJ's impassioned declaration to the American people. I've always thought he did it because it dawned on him what a horrible mistake it all was. He refused to send more young men to die for nothing.