{"id":1026,"date":"2006-03-09T02:52:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T02:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:38","slug":"netroots_love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Netroots Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

One issue I’ve blogged about pretty extensively is my concern about the ‘suicidal lemming’ wing of the Democratic Party and what it’s going to do for the forces of true progressivism in this country.<\/p>\n

It’s the wing that positive, just positive, that masses of voters will come out and support them if only they are firm enough in their positions – positions near and dear to the hearts of coastal elites, but pretty distance from those living paycheck to paycheck in exurbia and flyover country.<\/p>\n

Molly Ivens cuts loose<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As usual, the Democrats have forty good issues on their side and want to run on thirty-nine of them. Here are three they should stick to:<\/p>\n

\n1) Iraq is making terrorism worse; it\u2019s a breeding ground. We need to extricate ourselves as soon as possible. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying.<\/p>\n

\n2) Full public financing of campaigns so as to drive the moneylenders from the halls of Washington.<\/p>\n

\n3) Single-payer health insurance.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every Democrat I talk to is appalled at the sheer gutlessness and spinelessness of the Democratic performance. The party is still cringing at the thought of being called, ooh-ooh, \u201cunpatriotic\u201d by a bunch of rightwingers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Molly needs to get out more. She’s talking to all the people Pauline Kael<\/a> was talking to back in 1968. Now each of those issues has a constituency. And it’s not a small one. But it’s not enough to win national elections, or even to win Congressional ones outside of the deep-blue pockets.<\/p>\n

Today we have evidence of that, as the netroots dumped cash, electrons and credibility onto House candidate Ciro Rodriguez in Texas-28; he got beat by Henry Cuellar, who famously hugged Bush at the SOTU.<\/p>\n

This brings the netroots record to 0-and something.<\/p>\n

At what point do the leaders of the netroots look at the evidence, and consider modifying their course?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The netroots struck out again. Now what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}