Reply #27: Perlstein's Advice is BS

[Vinnie From Indy]

The article doesn't address even a fraction of the irregularities that have been documented. His not so subtle slam of DU and the inspiring debate taking place here is bogus. He strikes me as another hand wringing liberal more concerned with Democrats being "embarrassed" than confronting the fraud issues related to the last election. He mentions in his article that there were indeed long lines, voter roll chicanery and a host of other illegal and unAmerican activities inflicted by the Repugs on the Democrats. What is his solution? He advises that the left should get behind efforts to prevent the same thing happening in '06. Does his advice remind anyone of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football?

Perlstein's advice to back away from challenging the theft of the election in Ohio and elsewhere is the mind set that causes Democrats to keep getting kicked in the balls at every turn. We have no shortage of folks on the left, like Perlstein, that keep advising us all to bring knives to gunfights. Perlstein does make one prescient point about the future of America. He states that if the Democrats don't pursue voting reform we are doomed to lose power locally as we have nationally. I agree with that, but I think his milquetoast attitude and hand wringing over Democrats being embarrassed will assure rather than prevent that from happening.

edit: correction of word order