NYT Op-ed: Warren Can Win

[beerandjesus]

97. Apology accepted...

... but I have to admit, it's a bit hard after you've called me a right-wing shill half a dozen times in this thread.

I deliberately didn't say you hadn't *understood* my post, because I thought it would be too rudely dismissive. I actually thought I was giving you the benefit of the doubt by saying you hadn't *read* it.

Speaking of "benefits", I never spoke of any "benefit" resulting from a Santorum campaign. I actually think there could be a lot of benefit, IF it forces Democrats back to their populist roots, but I didn't say so earlier. What I did say is that Santorum is speaking up for the "little guy" out in the hinterlands. I think that's obviously true, because he's the only Republican doing it, and Democrats rarely go out to the hinterlands at all.

Santorum, being a moron, is likely to screw this up. If he doesn't, however, this is a serious threat to Hillary, because if the Republicans manage to claim economic populism as their own issue--which is well-known to be the most important issue to the electorate today--she will have nothing to counter with.

The other thing I asked in the post you skipped was this, and I apologize for the copy/paste:

"Do you really need me to explain to you what's *wrong* with Santorum? Do you not already know that? Can you not stop for a moment and ponder the potential strengths of a long-shot candidate without a condescending assurance that, no, I don't plan to vote for him myself?"

Ok, I was mad when I typed that, but as you can see, I would have thought it insulting to your intelligence to have to reassure you that I wasn't, in fact, advocating for a nutcase like Santorum. As grown-ups, it seems to me we ought to be able to discuss the relative strengths of specific Republicans without having to fall all over ourselves swearing fealty to the Democratic Party. Maybe if we acted like we're all Democrats on here (especially since almost all of us ARE), rather than hunting for secret freeper cabals, we could raise the level of our discourse just a bit!