Iowa's Alternate Reality
The spin the press is putting on the candidates is nothing short of breathtaking...
Edwards is something of a wildcard. Since nobody expected him to get anywhere, the press hasn't created his "alternate press world identity" yet. I am sure they are scrambling at this very minute to come up with the short list of three platitudes that they'll use to define everything about him.
Yeah, the news networks are looping that Dean bit over and over again. Nice. Maybe we can dig up a few of Bush's verbal faux-pas and do the same thing.
Oh, yeah. Not gonna happen, 'cause the press corps doesn't want to endanger their relationship with the White House. What a bunch of pussy-whipped wankers. And I mean that in the general, non-sexist sense. ;)
Dean is a pretty decent guy all around, very much a moderate, but somewhat excitable on the podium. I think his campaign felt that they would make the switch to positive after taking Iowa. Now that hasn't happened, and the situation is just bizarre, for them...on the plus side, they haven't had Gephardt pounding away at them in New Hampshire for the last month.
And all the talk of Dean being "unqualified" is just completely ridiculous. He's dramatically more qualified than Bush ever was (as are all the Democratic candidates), and more qualified than Bush is right now.
We have a good deal of insight into Bush's decision process right now. We used to think he looked like a monkey, and called him Incurious George. Now we know that he has an inner monkey too; the inner monkey lives in his brain, and has a dartboard with little pasted-on names of policies.
Where is the one, single, written piece of evidence of serious policy analysis and thinking, done by this man? Every modern President has an extensive written record...but this one doesn't...won't give interviews...never says _anything_, because if you don't say anything, it can't come back to haunt you.
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I don't see how you can
I don't see how you can classify Dean as moderate, unless you are secretly far more leftist than I ever thought you were. I never thought the anger was more than a pose, seeing as how he was a relatively sedate governor. No doubt he is a decent enough guy - but his positions aren't exactly middle of the road.
And please, there is no reason to imagine that W. is a monkey, especially seeing as that unthinking monkey seems to defeat the left every time they go up against each other. If you disagree with his policies, fine - argue against them. But calling him a monkey doesn't advance the debate.
So tell me what issues you
So tell me what issues you believe make Dean something other than moderate? Time for specifics!
Anybody can win when they discard ethics. Sooner or later it catches up with you, but in the short term, it wins.
You call Dean a lefty without
You call Dean a lefty without backing it up, I get to Bush an unethical monkey without backing it up ;)
Oh yeah...I'm going to write
Oh yeah...I'm going to write something longer at some point, but the CBO site (http://www.cbo.gov) is the best site ever for researching what's really going on out there.
The debt-as-percentage of GDP figures actually lean towards B's positions, in some cases. Are you surprised I admit that? :) I have a little plan in the works, though...that should be pretty interesting.