tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post115107420593204482..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Winston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1151194325856358842006-06-24T20:12:00.000-04:002006-06-24T20:12:00.000-04:00I think you got that one right, bro.I think you got that one right, bro.Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1151177302358859762006-06-24T15:28:00.000-04:002006-06-24T15:28:00.000-04:00I don't know what Dean is either, except wack.The ...I don't know what Dean is either, except wack.<BR/><BR/>The act that can make you the leader of the opposition is just what disqualifies you from leading a majority. Newt Gingrich fell down the same hole.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1151151754815776282006-06-24T08:22:00.000-04:002006-06-24T08:22:00.000-04:00Matt_C,Didn't say 'never,' didn't say they were pe...Matt_C,<BR/><BR/>Didn't say 'never,' didn't say they were perfect. They're wrong lots of the time. That Siegel blurb is a stinker. How'd fascism get into it? Note the comments section...he really gets blasted.<BR/><BR/>There IS a point buried in there, though, about frivolity and lack of attention. But it's crap, I'll grant you that.<BR/><BR/>Though it is a one-paragraph blurb in the "Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1151151376568181492006-06-24T08:16:00.000-04:002006-06-24T08:16:00.000-04:00I'm sympathetic with you on this one, Tom. If the...I'm sympathetic with you on this one, Tom. If the Kososphere starts steering the party, the Dems are doomed.<BR/><BR/>A minor qibble, though...Dean isn't really much of a lefty. I have to admit that I don't really have much of a read on that guy. It was really the strange following that coalesced around him that I found kind of alarming. Anyway, Dean is a bit weird, I'll grant you that, and Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1151133389252364482006-06-24T03:16:00.000-04:002006-06-24T03:16:00.000-04:00speaking of vitriol:http://www.tnr.com/blog/cultur...speaking of vitriol:<BR/><BR/>http://www.tnr.com/blog/culture?pid=22000<BR/><BR/>Good to know that the sane folks at TNR would never stoop to the fiendish level of the blogosphere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1151111960925658892006-06-23T21:19:00.000-04:002006-06-23T21:19:00.000-04:00Well, once upon a time there was a liberalism that...Well, once upon a time there was a liberalism that was quite in harmony with my own worldview. FDR, the Catholic Worker movement. Even Martin Sheen's affection for the Berrigan Brothers, which is kind of a leftover of that.<BR/><BR/>I don't find that brand of liberalism extreme at all. I could vote for it on a good day. (Or a very bad one.)<BR/><BR/>I do my best to disassociate myself when I Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1151107434668851312006-06-23T20:03:00.000-04:002006-06-23T20:03:00.000-04:00Well, I'm not sure about that part about conservat...Well, I'm not sure about that part about conservatives...if anything, they've spent the last 25 years irrevocably alienating folks like me. But maybe.<BR/><BR/>As for the part about liberals...well, that's traditionally been true of the serious lefties...but Chait's point is that the same attitude is being brought into the mainstream by the 'net lefties. <BR/><BR/>If so, we're doomed. We couldWinston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1151099107525916972006-06-23T17:45:00.000-04:002006-06-23T17:45:00.000-04:00"...[E]stablishment Democrats have three choices. ..."...[E]stablishment Democrats have three choices. One, they can join us, and a lot of people have, people like Simon Rosenberg. They can get out of the way. Or we're going to roll them. Because quite frankly we're tired of losing, and we're not going to do that anymore."---Kos<BR/><BR/>"[L]iberals hunt down heretics ... conservatives happily chase converts."---Michael Kinsley<BR/><BR/><BR/>I Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com