Monday, January 02, 2006

What Do You Call an Echo Chamber with a Time Warp?

Answer: The Democratic Party.

Fox News is carrying a story about John Kerry's ongoing campaign for President (yes, of the United States, not France). How anyone who was beaten as Kerry was can think that he has a decent shot at the nomination, let alone the general election, is certainly beyond the experience of anyone outside the world of Democratic politics.

But it seems credible to some. Fox quotes Kerry spokesman David Wade:

He's continuing the fight he began in 2004. He wants to make it very clear he's a fighter who is going to continue to fight for his agenda.

Don't you just love the way Ds use "fight" and "fighter" all the time? Al Gore took this verbal tick to its zenith in his 2000 D-convention acceptance speech, and now it's the full D-lexicon. It seems Dems are always spoiling for a fight these days, unless it is against Islamo-fascists.

SWNID confesses that we are more inclined to see Kerry's quixotic crusade as does Dan Payne, consultant to the Ds and a former Kerry strategist, quoted by Fox as saying:

He is going to have a difficult time overcoming his last campaign and explaining to the party regulars how and why he lost. There's only so much that the Democrats can blame on Karl Rove.

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