Regarding the main thread, it sure is nice to see the Democrats who posture and primp about being the party of emotion and feeling, of mercy and “social justice” continually hoist by their own petard. In my opinion, they’re also the party of wonkish and obsessive attention to the political process. There’s nothing inspirational about their eternal campaigning (this cycle seems to have lasted an eternity) or their consistent House and Senate investigations. Also, they’re always trying to write new laws to add to the Byzantine thickets of them we have already. They shake their heads at phrases like, “Why don’t we enforce the gun laws we have already?” No; we need brand new ones, again and again, so legislative resumes can be padded.

But for all their feelings and emotions and all their processes ensured to promote their true faith, “fairness,” they’ve painted themselves into a corner trying to be fair to everyone. They can’t follow their own rules or they’ll disfranchise millions of Dem voters and look like the very Republicans they demonize. They can’t break their own rules or they’ll appear weak and disorganized, able to be pushed around. They’re destroying themselves before our eyes. To solve their problem, they’re diving into process, thus turning off regualr citizens who don’t have the time to spend on the nuts and bolts of politics.

John McCain must be smiling. He knows Republicans will come home and he’ll bleed off many Democrats who disdain their own party’s agressive self-imposed stasis.

Don’t confuse him/her with the difference between statistically minor affronts to dignity and entrenched, system-wide policies of profane torture and executions.

Sometimes the truth is horrible. This video contains disturbing scenes of American troops sadistically taunting Iraqi children, randomly throwing grenades at sheep herders and the infamous puppy toss with David Motari.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5_vG3cYGM

http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/iraq-horrible-truth

yeah . i had a good laugh at that. Talk about missing the point.

Well what do you expect when leftists refuse to do any retrospection. When have you ever seen a Leftist concede that perhaps they or their allies were ever wrong about anything.

So of course when he’s reading your comments, he’s not thinking about actually evaulating the left against what you said.. he’s looking for any little oppurtunity to point out where you are wrong.

he did it with the voting process too.

The point did not pertain to the formal selection structure used by the party, but to the fact that in the 2000 election the Dems publicly disparaged the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote. That was the basis of their bleating that Gore should be President, the Electoral College notwithstanding.

Now, however, within their own party they’re faced with a disparity between the delegate count and the aggregate popular vote, so they’re screwed either way.

If they plump for the delegate count, Dem “activists” (how I hate that word) will bleat that they should have used the popular vote, and trot out the same arguments Dems generally used in 2000.

If they go for popular vote, other Dem “activists” will (this time with justification) howl that they’re not following the rules set up before the primaries.

So it’s not the legal structure that matters, but that by opposing the Electoral College in 2000, the Dems have effectively placed themselves on both sides of this issue for their convention, and almost inevitably will infuriate a significant fraction of their constituency.

That was the point.

In essence, I’m positing a repeat of the 1968 convention and its aftermath. Surely we can agree that the Weather Underground, SDS, Symbionese Liberation Army, etc. all came from the left, yes?