Reply #13: penny wise, pound foolish

[Lexingtonian]

On deciding where the problem with the Party lies, I'm gonna go with "David Williams" representing it here rather than "John Kerry".

My response to this response is "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." It will take a minor beating with the Clue Stick to clear up all the implicit fallacies to this OP. But suffice it to say: voters voted for Republicans on November 2 because of perceived Democratic selfrighteousness on foreign policy, perceived Democratic ideas of entitlement based in inadequate ideology, and to a smaller degree perceived Democratic fudging on domestic social policy. Notice how this has everything to do with the sense of the Party, heavily flavored by the Dean contingent's behavior, and Kerry is quite a bit less responsible for the appearances of these things than alleged.

Notice also that Kerry is expending himself in reestablishing Democratic credibility in foreign affairs, is leaving the internal ideological fight well enough alone, and isn't wasting any time on domestic social policy (which is out of his hands).

And that's about the most restrained possible response I can give you. Train your guns on getting other Democrats in line and working for the good of the whole, Kerry is part of the solution and not part of the problem now.