by Kagro X
When is an Internet-based, third party organizing effort a Very Serious Idea?
When David "Wild Man" Broder f*cking well tells you it is. That's when. You lowly moron.
Until plans for this meeting were disclosed, the most concrete public move toward any kind of independent candidacy was by Unity08, a group planning an online nominating convention to pick either an independent candidate or a ticket combining a Republican and a Democrat. The sponsors, an eclectic mix of consultants who have worked for candidates including Jimmy Carter (D) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), have not aligned with a specific prospect.
Now, some people with high-level political and governmental credentials are moving to put muscle behind the effort.
What meeting, you ask? Why, the Big Bipartisan Serious Person's Kumbaya Love-In for America, of course.
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a "government of national unity" to end the gridlock in Washington.
Those who will be at the Jan. 7 session at the University of Oklahoma say that if the likely nominees of the two parties do not pledge to "go beyond tokenism" in building an administration that seeks national consensus, they will be prepared to back Bloomberg or someone else in a third-party campaign for president.
And who are the Dirty Fucking Hippies, er, the pajama-wearing, mom's-basement-bound shut-ins, er the Vinnies in the Bronx, uh... I mean, the Very Serious People behind this masterstroke?
Conveners of the meeting include such prominent Democrats as former senators Sam Nunn (Ga.), Charles S. Robb (Va.) and David L. Boren (Okla.), and former presidential candidate Gary Hart. Republican organizers include Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), former party chairman Bill Brock, former senator John Danforth (Mo.) and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman.
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Others who have indicated that they plan to attend the one-day session include William S. Cohen, a former Republican senator from Maine and defense secretary in the Clinton administration; Alan Dixon, a former Democratic senator from Illinois; Bob Graham, a former Democratic senator from Florida; Jim Leach, a former Republican congressman from Iowa; Susan Eisenhower, a political consultant and granddaughter of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower; David Abshire, president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency; and Edward Perkins, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Well, just look at that! It's "bipartisan," so you know it's just Scrumpdillyicious! You can tell it's Good for America by the fact that there are not one, but two letters there: D and R! It's automatically jam-packed with USA-ey goodness!
Lemme see now, we've got an Iraq war supporter, an Iraq war cheerleader, an Iraq war apologist, a reluctant "well, we're there now, so..." Iraq war fatalist... yep, it's "bipartisan!" Unity's on! Come 'n get it, everyone!
This is how shallow it's become. The Dean of the Washington Press Corps says this is about unity because the participants used to be both Democrats and Republicans. Nevermind that there's literally no daylight between the positions of the participants on issues of importance to voting Americans. The important thing is that the letters after their names are different, and therefore it's a "coming together" of "two sides" for the "good of America."
Thanks, fellas. Mighty white of you to think about saving me from my own ignorance. I almost voted my own preferences there for a minute!
Going back to 1969, Broder has been WRONG about 90% of the time he's written about anything (in 1969 he was saying Democrats would destroy themselves if they didn't cooperate with Nixon to end the war). How that moron has become the "Dean" of anything is more a function of the fact the rest of them are otherwise-unemployable hacks working for corporate scum who reward those who keep saying "Look! A shiny object!" every time Something Important starts to happen.
Every one of those people on Broder's list is a has-been who nobody can remember nowadays anyway. Unless you're an idiot like Broder who remembers how much fun it was to sleep with all of them when everyone was younger and looked better.
Posted by: TCinLA | December 30, 2007 at 12:34
They're all has-beens who've been rejected by or lost control of their respective parties.
These are the saviors of the country? The ousted "stalwarts" of the Republican Party who couldn't keep their own house in order? Who complained so bitterly at their being displaced by their own troops? And now they seek to "reconcile" the country at large on the theory that... what? It'll get easier with a larger and more diverse herd of cats?
Ridiculous.
And how arrogant! "Well, sure I got kicked to the curb. But if I just unfurl my noble banner over here, surely the people will follow. No?"
Posted by: Kagro X | December 30, 2007 at 14:58
I have something for them: a big fat raspberry and three fingers ('read between the lines').
I don't want bipartisan: it's a recipe for staying stuck in the rut we've been in this last year. I want real partisan, so we can see which of the @#$%^&*s we have in Congress is ready to be retired, and the sooner the better. I want real partisan, so we can see that the Ds are in fact not the same as the Rs.
The heck with Broder: he's just another Village idiot.
Posted by: P J Evans | December 30, 2007 at 19:02
Love the "whiff of BenGay" line. Says it all.
Posted by: coral | December 30, 2007 at 21:19
So, when do they bring back "Good Time Charlie"? As to Broder, I can see him in that Bullwinkle movie as the "Dean of What'sAMatterU".
Posted by: Ron Russell | December 30, 2007 at 23:15
So, when do they bring back "Good Time Charlie"? As to Broder, I can see him in that Bullwinkle movie as the "Dean of What'sAMatterU".
Posted by: Ron Russell | December 30, 2007 at 23:15
Where's Lamar Alexander when we need him?
Posted by: alabama | December 31, 2007 at 11:59
I wouldn't want Broder to choose the make-up of this hybrid, but I don't think the progressive short-road can proceed apace of the current deadlock without something akin to this idea.
I like Chuck Hagel and Chris Dodd.
Posted by: Semanticleo | December 31, 2007 at 12:08
Well they are all rich, white, old, and from my point of view stupid. It shouldn't take them long to hammer out a platform.
Posted by: ceo | December 31, 2007 at 14:07
"Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens"
-Talking Heads
In heaven, Dave Broder will always be wrong about everything, in exactly the same way.
Hallelujah, people! We are in heaven.
~
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