Pissing off your friends
: Michael J. Totten says the Democrats are “mainstreaming the fringe,” just as the Republicans did a decade ago.
Or put it another way: They’re pissing off their most likely allies, not a good strategy (as they themselves have said frequently these days). Says Totten:
Wesley Clark and his rival Howard Dean are doing what the Republicans did twelve years ago – stirring up the fringe for votes and attention. They are letting loose forces that will not soon vanish, that cannot be accomodated, that will be their own undoing.
I know of so many people who have never supported Republicans who are shaken and disillusioned by what is happening to the Democrats. I don’t know of a single person, anywhere, who is moving the other direction.
The damage will last a long time.
He included me in that list.
