Thursday, May 04, 2006

Tip would say "I told you so."

Eli Sanders visits a conservative enclave in the south end of Darcy Country and makes a point worth repeating...
Much has been made of the Democrats' lack of a coherent national message on Iraq, but the attitudes in Buckley suggest that in fact, a party made up of individual candidates with different takes on the war might actually be more likely to win.
In fact, he finds that...
...the national Democratic Party's vague official message on Iraq—that this should be a "year of transition"—actually synchs up quite nicely with what people here are feeling: a fatigue with the entire project, but a desire not to view it as an utter failure.
I know we're in the era of way-new politics where the gate crashers are busy changing all the rules and stuff, but meanwhile we've got some elections to win, and as someone who knew how to win elections once taught us, all politics is local.

While I'm a Troops Out Now! kinda guy, I understand that 'out now' is something that will, for logistical reasons alone, take months, so "year of transition" is a loose but adequate fit for me. If it works for the folks in Buckley, too, for whatever reason, better yet.

Maybe those widely disparaged DC Dems are onto something after all.

Maria, too.

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