Talking Points spent some time last night at a conclave of Democrats (well, mostly Democrats). And the consensus seemed to be … Bad News: our beloved candidate just lost to a hapless dork who may be less qualified to be president than any candidate in the last century. Good News: our opponent for the next four years is a hapless dork who may be less qualified to be president than any candidate in the last century.
Alright ⦠alright ⦠I can live with that. That works for me.
Speaking of being in the opposition, Democrats now seem intent on making one of the first priorities of the 107th congress.
Isn’t this just great politics?
As we’ve seen, this is a very important issue. Whether or not Palm Beach county threw out upwards of 20,000 ballots in 1996 as well as 2000, it’s just an unacceptably high number. So the issue is good on substance.
But think of the politics.
Bush can’t run away from the issue, obviously. And yet what is the subtext of the whole debate? We need to reform our election machinery so that the loser in the race doesn’t slip through as the winner because a bunch of voting machines don’t work right. Isn’t that it? Even the Bush-friendly sub-text would be, we have to reform our election machinery so that the ‘winner’ isn’t hobbled and made illegitimate by faulty voting machines.
It’s win-win politics for the Democrats.
Finally, now that all the distraction is over, we can get down to the real business of the post-election period: bashing that lousy stab-in-the-back wretch Ralph Nader.
Watch for future posts.
