So the thread is free to debate the issues, talk about the political ups and downs and present their ideas without name-calling and degenerating into rude behavior.
Michael, you clearly either read selectively, lack empathetic talents, or some other such low level sin. I invite you to sit in my chair for a while and note the ill will some of the extreme right wingers here evidence. It's silly, self defeating, and childish, but it's definitely there. Bill doesn't stop it. Whether he should or not is strictly up to him. But he doesn't participate, at least not at the level of the worst, and that gives it less legitimacy.
As for your comments about the California election, you can hardly call the dem establishment "radicals." They may have run a bad campaign--it was certainly not good politics but then the negatives going in might have doomed any serious Dem campaign as soon as Davis decided to fight the recall and oppose any serious Dem candidate. Had Feinstein agreed to run, the story would have been completely different.
So this is not right wing time for California. It's the politics of the theater. We don't know whether this guy can govern; and, most importantly for you, whether he governs in ways that will please you. Check, much to my surprise, the George Will column Bill posted. |
