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2006-05-09 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve 2006-05-09 11:29|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is more a problem with free, anonymous speech and the extremely rapid and cheap communications now made possible by the internet. Up until the last 5-10 years, it had not been practical for any writer to receive and scan responses from 3,499 of his readers within 4 days of publishing something. The next innovation after blogs will have to be a program to process massive amounts of email responses to blog posts and comments on blogs. Especially useful would be software to identify memes and verbal formulas which occur repeatedly in emails.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-05-09 14:46|| 2006-05-09 14:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Some Democrats - like Cohen, Estrich, and Carville - understand all too well what use can be made of such hate by an opposition party. Their fear is palpable. There is a wry irony in this, for their crowd used similar (though never as foam-flecked) hate from the right masterfully and with devastating effect themselves, to Bill Clinton's advantage.

The Left is their own worst enemy. The more they talk, the more they scare regular folks away from voting Democrat.

I think it's more likely than not that the few sane Democrats like Cohen do NOT move the howlies in their own party and that the hate, derogatory and condescending rhetoric, and maps of "Jesusland", etc., continue ad infinitum, with the inevitable effects on any plebiscite.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-05-09 16:30|| 2006-05-09 16:30|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd love for the Kos kids and DU blatherers to be given a public platform to show their real ideas/ faces....Mainstream America would revulse at the bile spewed in "mainstream democratic forums"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-09 17:20|| 2006-05-09 17:20|| Front Page Top

#4 The donks have a big generational problem. The generation of '68 is now retired or old bulls. They hogged all the spots for the last 4 decades, so there hasn't been much room for new blood to seep into the machine. Meantime, the trunks had the opportunities and the ideas (that happens when there's no where to go but up). They've captured all the growth areas on the map and slowly eroded the donk strongholds.

Now the donks are hitting bottom and have no adult supervision to control the young turks. For the next two decades, they'll wander in the wilderness, mumbling to themselves, sort of like the trunks in the forties, fifties and sixties. Then the next generation will come along with some new ideas to deal with the new problems. By then the trunks will be getting long in the tooth and will be ready to be toppled. And topple they will.

Actually a reason why term limits may be good for the party but not the incumbent.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-09 18:23|| 2006-05-09 18:23|| Front Page Top

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