Dirty Dean Dozen

Apparently the most important character trait for being a politician is having the ability to look into the camera (or in this case, the blog) and lie through your teeth. Howard Dean's Democracy for America blog this afternoon carried a statement saying:

Ah, Howard, the Dems got trounced for the exact reasons you said in November they would. If there's a choice between two Republicans, this country goes for the real one every time. That was true even during the "liberal" years of Adlai Stevenson (i.e., President Eisenhower). And in my own backyard -- where Kerry carried Fairfax County, VA by 53%-47% -- the Democratic congressional candidate lost to a hugely unpopular incumbent by a whopping 64%-36%. That's not even a dent into the traditional incumbent winning margin and was almost the largest losing margin in the entire state.

Nothing has changed. Democractic politics are as bankrupt of ideas and principles as ever. One cannot lead this vast and diverse country just by being against things. Kerry and the Democratic ticket only made the case for why Bush was flawed, but provided little or no positive reasons to vote for them. They got exactly what they deserved.

Even worse, they won't even fight about it. Kerry's pablum position that he was conceding to "bring the country together" is hogwash. We're about to enter into a real culture war in America -- not the trumped-up one Pat Buchanan warned of in 1992 -- and it's not going to be pretty. So Kerry won't fight, while Bush is coming out swinging. Deja vue all over again.

 Posted by glenn