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November 03, 2004

Right out of hell

This started out as a comment on Amy's post but got too big so ... I think the victories by the extreme right-wingers worries me more than Bush -- especially since their victories will encourage Bush to move further that way. Though he ran a lot better campaign than I thought, I have to say that I still think the Democrats should be able to field someone better than Kerry, someone who can simply say Iraq WAS a mistake. But the other thing that worries me is that I'm afraid someone not willing to waffle on some key issues would have gone down in flames in this increasingly right-wing country. Politics used to be more complex when the South was Democrat territory -- though the motives of the Southern Democrats were often racist, their existence made the system more fluid. There were more than two kinds of states then. Though I'd wish it came with different motives, we could use some of that complexity again. Though each was in his own way rather demented, pols like Johnson and Nixon were complex mixtures of left and right (although in today's GOP mindset they were both flaming liberals). I can only hope that maybe some voters wrote off Kerry as just a "Massachusetts liberal" and might be more willing to listen to the same message from someone else -- but I honestly don't know.

Posted by markj at November 3, 2004 05:07 PM

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