SAFIRE BORROWS RUSH'S SPECIAL STASH
Actually, based on Bill Safire's latest trip to fantasy land, some heavier drugs may be at work.
His latest piece, "Don't Stop Dean", represents a veritable critical mass of right-wing paranoid delusional reasoning. All the bases are covered:
--The Democratic Party is severely split between the Dean wing and the "Old Democrats" (read "Clintons").
--Furthermore, attacks made by candidates towards other candidates constitute a rift in the party, a claim not made even with John McCain.
--A dispute between two candidates over an issue now moot is a microcosm of a rift in the party.
--Wes Clark waits for approval from his "Clinton handlers" to say or do anything. This idiocy alone should allow Bill Keller to quickly eliminate Bill the elder from the NYT payroll.
--Bill Clinton and the DLC are one and the same.
--The "Clinton Establishment" is rooting for a 2004 loss so Hillary/whoever can run in 2008.
--Howard Dean will run as an independent if he doesn't win the nomination.
--Al Gore is likened to Al Qaeda for some reason.
If I were the Dean campaign, or any Democrat (new or "old"), I'd simply ignore this nonsense. But in order to give them the freedom to do so, I'll handle this. Mark my words, Safire: The Democratic Party will support Howard Dean or whoever gets nominated, candidates attack eachother in primary seasons, Dean and Wes Clark have an honest dispute regarding a turn of events which were rendered meaningless by Clark's declaration of candidacy, Clark is his own man and a very smart man at that, attacking the DLC is not tantamount to attacking Clinton, no one in the Democratic Party leadership would be so callous Machiavellian and cynical as to wish for 4 more years of Bush in the interest of 2008 (this strikes me as right-wing projection), Howard Dean is not Ross Perot and he understands the practical implications of being a neo-Nader, and finally, while Al Gore has sported a beard from time to time, I'm fairly certain that he remains a church-going Christian.
Bill Safire should reserve his conspiracy theories for shadowy meetings with terrorists in Prague. Oh wait, Bill, that didn't happen either, as reported by James Risen from your own damn paper.
Actually, based on Bill Safire's latest trip to fantasy land, some heavier drugs may be at work.
His latest piece, "Don't Stop Dean", represents a veritable critical mass of right-wing paranoid delusional reasoning. All the bases are covered:
--The Democratic Party is severely split between the Dean wing and the "Old Democrats" (read "Clintons").
--Furthermore, attacks made by candidates towards other candidates constitute a rift in the party, a claim not made even with John McCain.
--A dispute between two candidates over an issue now moot is a microcosm of a rift in the party.
--Wes Clark waits for approval from his "Clinton handlers" to say or do anything. This idiocy alone should allow Bill Keller to quickly eliminate Bill the elder from the NYT payroll.
--Bill Clinton and the DLC are one and the same.
--The "Clinton Establishment" is rooting for a 2004 loss so Hillary/whoever can run in 2008.
--Howard Dean will run as an independent if he doesn't win the nomination.
--Al Gore is likened to Al Qaeda for some reason.
If I were the Dean campaign, or any Democrat (new or "old"), I'd simply ignore this nonsense. But in order to give them the freedom to do so, I'll handle this. Mark my words, Safire: The Democratic Party will support Howard Dean or whoever gets nominated, candidates attack eachother in primary seasons, Dean and Wes Clark have an honest dispute regarding a turn of events which were rendered meaningless by Clark's declaration of candidacy, Clark is his own man and a very smart man at that, attacking the DLC is not tantamount to attacking Clinton, no one in the Democratic Party leadership would be so callous Machiavellian and cynical as to wish for 4 more years of Bush in the interest of 2008 (this strikes me as right-wing projection), Howard Dean is not Ross Perot and he understands the practical implications of being a neo-Nader, and finally, while Al Gore has sported a beard from time to time, I'm fairly certain that he remains a church-going Christian.
Bill Safire should reserve his conspiracy theories for shadowy meetings with terrorists in Prague. Oh wait, Bill, that didn't happen either, as reported by James Risen from your own damn paper.
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