Chimper_junta Really Really Wants Governor Dean to Get the Dem Nomination! Really! Really they do!! (ROFLMAO!)
Who's Afraid of Howard Dean? by Raul Groom - Democratic Underground
Two men walk slowly down a wooded path after dark. They talk quietly but energetically, flitting desultorily from Islamic gnosticism to artificial intelligence to electoral strategy. Suddenly, piercing the pungent haze like the light of a full moon through the wisp of an icy November cirrus cloud, the observation of the evening springs from the taller man's lips.
"Joe Lieberman is 'The Mole.'"
Thus spake my brother-in-law Daniel on a cold Thanksgiving night, crystallizing for me exactly what Joe Lieberman and his ilk really represent for the Democratic party. Of all the half-baked analogies with which I have larded the pages of DemocraticUnderground.com since I began writing for them five months ago, it is that first one - Lieberman as the aging, almost-was-but-never-will-be pugilist standing between today's young talents and their unknown destinies - that has haunted me the most. It seems so right intuitively, but I could never put my finger on why.
Certainly, a lot of runner-up VP candidates have gone the way of Gerry Cooney and Ray Mercer. Neither Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. nor Ed Muskie ever got his title shot, but it took a considerable effort to knock each man from the top ranks of his respective party. Despite suffering eventual defeat, these men were contenders. Lieberman somehow abdicated his post as #1 challenger without anyone ever really having to take it from him. No one I know - except dim Republicans with weblogs - thinks Joe has any chance of winning the nomination and going toe-to-toe with Bush in 11 months' time. What happened? The question has dogged me for weeks.
Now, with Daniel's words echoing in my ears, I see the truth - Joe Lieberman isn't in it to win it. He really is The Mole.
For those of you blissfully unfamiliar with ABC's "The Mole" series, it breaks down like this - the contestants on the show are all trying to win cash prizes by participating in group stunts. One of their number - The Mole - wins money only when the group fails. Thus he has to subtly but decisively intervene to keep the group from achieving its objectives.
The crude interpretation of this model would be that Joe is some kind of Republican plant. Except to stoned Marxists, that idea is obviously absurd. The reality of the current American political situation, however, is that Lieberman, and indeed, a great many other powerful Democrats, stand to lose a great deal as the Democratic party sheds its old skin and molts into a sleeker form for the new millennium.
Read the whole great piece....Link...
Two men walk slowly down a wooded path after dark. They talk quietly but energetically, flitting desultorily from Islamic gnosticism to artificial intelligence to electoral strategy. Suddenly, piercing the pungent haze like the light of a full moon through the wisp of an icy November cirrus cloud, the observation of the evening springs from the taller man's lips.
"Joe Lieberman is 'The Mole.'"
Thus spake my brother-in-law Daniel on a cold Thanksgiving night, crystallizing for me exactly what Joe Lieberman and his ilk really represent for the Democratic party. Of all the half-baked analogies with which I have larded the pages of DemocraticUnderground.com since I began writing for them five months ago, it is that first one - Lieberman as the aging, almost-was-but-never-will-be pugilist standing between today's young talents and their unknown destinies - that has haunted me the most. It seems so right intuitively, but I could never put my finger on why.
Certainly, a lot of runner-up VP candidates have gone the way of Gerry Cooney and Ray Mercer. Neither Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. nor Ed Muskie ever got his title shot, but it took a considerable effort to knock each man from the top ranks of his respective party. Despite suffering eventual defeat, these men were contenders. Lieberman somehow abdicated his post as #1 challenger without anyone ever really having to take it from him. No one I know - except dim Republicans with weblogs - thinks Joe has any chance of winning the nomination and going toe-to-toe with Bush in 11 months' time. What happened? The question has dogged me for weeks.
Now, with Daniel's words echoing in my ears, I see the truth - Joe Lieberman isn't in it to win it. He really is The Mole.
For those of you blissfully unfamiliar with ABC's "The Mole" series, it breaks down like this - the contestants on the show are all trying to win cash prizes by participating in group stunts. One of their number - The Mole - wins money only when the group fails. Thus he has to subtly but decisively intervene to keep the group from achieving its objectives.
The crude interpretation of this model would be that Joe is some kind of Republican plant. Except to stoned Marxists, that idea is obviously absurd. The reality of the current American political situation, however, is that Lieberman, and indeed, a great many other powerful Democrats, stand to lose a great deal as the Democratic party sheds its old skin and molts into a sleeker form for the new millennium.
Read the whole great piece....Link...
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