Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Listen to Elias -

He knows what he's talking about.
    The origins of this disaffection are easy to see, Kerry lost in '04 after the usual campaign of brutal emasculation from the hard right in the country.

    Having endured a full year of having their manhood questioned, disheartened liberals traditionally expiate their injured psyches by turning on the nominee like rats in a firestorm.

    Thus they symbolically say to the nation "We aren't unmanly, we can beat down John Kerry (Or Walter Mondale or Mike Dukakis or Al Gore) with the best of them!!"

    This is nothing except appropriating the oppressor's own malign emotional iconography, something we must purge from ourselves if we mean to govern and build a majority in the elections to come.
Indeed.

Kerry will appear on Larry King's show tonight, presumably to answer the 17,000th question about his fabled month-old joke. Sigh. The man has fortitude. Dare we hope that King might also squeeze in a question or two about a subject of much less general interest - say, IRAQ???

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