McQ at Q&O as reagrds Liz Edwards blasting MoveOn.ORG
Who said “you’re either with us or against us” was exclusive to George Bush? Certainly not the authoritarians on the left known as Netroots.
…You’re a smart woman. You of all people should know about the asymmetrical intimidation problem that Paul Krugman talks about — the one where the media is afraid to go after Rudy Guiliani for claiming he’s a rescue worker, but they’ll try to demolish your husband over a haircut because they know that they’ll get swarmed by the right wing noise machine for the former and pay no price for the latter. That’s how it works.
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So here’s the rule. You never repeat right wing talking points to attack your own, ever. You never enter that echo chamber as a participant. Ever. You never give them a hammer to beat the left with. Just. Don’t. Do. It.
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It’s not about what is morally right. It’s not about principle. It’s about winning. Nothing but. So you never, ever do anything that hurts those chances.
Ever.
It’s not like that really surprises anyone, now, does it, really? This is merely one more example of a long line of such attitudes emanating from the left, these days. Bruce does a fairly decent job of documenting it, but please… don’t make out like it’s something new.
Hamsher concludes:
We love you. We want to love you.
Knock it off.
Or said another way, our “love” (support, money, etc) is conditional. Very conditional. Heed the warning or pay the consequences when the tribe kicks you out.
This is precisely what I was talking about recently, when I suggested that the price for such adulation from the far left, would eventually be too high for mainstream Democrats. This is all part and parcel of the forthcoming split of the Democrats. It’s already happening… and in it’s early stages. It will reach it’s high point on or about the election… as it did in ’72.
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