Letters to the Editor
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whining and sniping
Well said, Mr. Carville. The kind of back and forth between the two Democrats has been moronic and infantile. I usually ignore it, but sometimes you just can't avoid the stupidity that passes for politics and political discourse.
I've always believed that people ought to be allowed to say the most racist, sexist, homophobic, class-biased crap they want to say. It's better to let people see how utterly stupid these people are than to drive them away from the fresh sunlight of exposure and reason. After awhile most intelligent people—left, right and center—see what's going, and tend to reject the termites.
Typically, the Democrats started on a high note of comity, and now have begun to wallow in the kind of ID politics that has made the party less a party of ideas and agenda and more a morass of competing victims. To some degree, the GOP has been spared this since they tend to be a party of an overwhelming demographic, but they have the stain of using Geo. Wallace's play book, which morphed into Nixon's Southern Strategy.
Politics ought to be about free speech, and sometimes people get carried away. But the kind of juvenile tit-for-tat fighting between the two Democratic camps ought to stop. Also, people ought to hold the media responsible for pushing the kind of responses that feeds into the "freak show" mentality.
As a pro-Obama leaner but non-Obama partisan, Ms. Powers ought to have remained on staff; so should Ms. Ferraro, who diminished her stature by her rather silly comments.
Now, can w get back to some real issues?