Had An Interesting Conversation Late Last Night ... About The Democratic Party...

[merrily]

166. It is hard, but it can be done and is done, daily,

on this board and elsewhere, in a variety of ways.

1. Decide that you are really committed to the center right, after all.

2. Decide that the poor widdle Democrats are just too afwaid of Republicans. (Corollary: Decide that, although it is true that Democrats are smarter than Republicans by far, it is also true that Republicans are always outsmarting them--and then also decide that both parts of that equation are true.

3. Blame everything on talk radio and/or Joe Lieberman. (It doesn't matter if he's still in Congress or not, just as it never mattered whether he had actually voted with the Democratic caucus or not.)

4. Decide that Democrats aren't losing the battle, they are really winning the war and by thirteen dimensional chess that the rest of us mere mortals cannot see. You know, like mere mortals could not see the Emperor's new clothes.

5. Develop double standards and "elastic" principles.

6. Ignore any facts that you don't like and attack those who dare raise them.

And so on.

Not easy, I grant you. But, apparently well worth the effort. Else, why would so many be expending the effort daily.