{"id":1709,"date":"2008-04-16T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-04-17T18:12:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T18:12:06","slug":"in_case_youre_w_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"In Case You’re Wondering Why McCain Is Ahead In The Polls…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go check out the Village Voice today<\/a>, as they profile 10 moderate and conservative bloggers (Ann Althouse<\/a> is included because she “disapproves of nearly everything the Democratic Party does”).<\/p>\n

Note that aside from the high-school level snark, they rate each blogger on their “STUPID\/EVIL RATIO”.<\/p>\n

The author is Roy Edroso from the ever-wise alicublog<\/a>…and aside from being a juvenile jackass, he’s a tool. Why? Because while nonsense like this is great for making the 15% of True Believers feel Really Really Good about themselves, it makes the other 36% that we on the left need to do things like – you know, win elections<\/b> – pretty pissed off at the smug arrogance that’s so proudly on display.<\/p>\n

And it’s timely, because Obama’s perceived invulnerability is being rattled by the fact that he dropped the mask at least rhetorically in Bittergate.<\/p>\n

Look, I’m not sure why urban intellectuals feel do disrespected as a class, and why they have such a chip on their shoulder. But you know what? <\/p>\n

We’re in an election cycle where the GOP candidate should be staked out like a sacrificial goat waiting for the knife. Instead, we get Democratic thinkers worrying – appropriately – that the Democratic candidate is going to actually lose<\/b> in November. And one of the big reasons is that the public voice of the Party is cranky, smug yuppies.<\/p>\n

I never in my life thought I’d be nostalgic for the Walter Reuther and George Meany Democrats. But you know what? If I have to choose between these clowns and those dead fat white guys, the dead guys are starting to look a whole lot better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Village Voice is crushingly stupid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}