A Friendly Bit Of Advice

A note to the leaders of the Democratic Party: It is an election year. So when the Republicans, whom you are defeating in all the national polls, run around hysterically purporting to give your party 'advice' to not critique the Iraq war and its continuation, as Ned Lamont has done successfully, because it makes you seem 'extreme'....

....Please, for the love of God, be smart enough to realize this means that you have them running scared (so scared they'd insinuate voting for Democrats 'encourages' terrorists) and that is they who are extreme, and also know that disapproval of the Iraq war has long been the real mainstream along with many of your other positions, and thus please continue to take them to task and hold them accountable for their poor leadership all across the nation.

If you're stupid enough to take 'advice' from your opponents, or even the same beltway-insider Dems (like the consultants who told you to push out Paul Hackett) who have lead you to defeat three national election cycles in a row, then frankly you may not even deserve to be elected. You've finally started to get your act together (and luckily haven't take their bait yet); so don't flinch now because Karl Rove screams 'boo'.

Thank you.

(Oh, it might also be a good idea to remind voters what a lousy job they've been doing on real peace and security, healthcare, job creation, the ever-growing deficit, oil dependency, education, and anything even remotely forward-thinking.)



See also Joe Conason's great article on this topic.

[PS- The politically odd-timing of the official media announcement of Britain's foiling of the terror plot is also something someone might want to look into, if only because there is a track record here.]