- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Obama's naive if he thinks the Republicans will respond to his pillow talk when he's elected. Now is not the time to extend the olive branch to the Conservatives. Like it or not, Rush is only articulating what most Conservatives believe with all their hard, black hearts. They will always behave as strong partisans because they truly believe they are morally right and that anyone not parroting the Conservative line is endangering the country and their children. The reality is that Conservatives love to declare war on everything and they view their (ab)use of power as the execution of a war on liberal ideals. And they will not be even close to negotiating in good faith until they have been beaten down in that war for a very long time.
Listen closely to John Edwards because he seems to be the only Democrat who understands the reality of this relationship with the Conservative zealots. He's ready to take the fight to them, which is exactly what we need to do. A sharp trial lawyer is equipped to beat the Cons on their own field.
