Weigh-in on NY mayor elections?

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Thu Nov 8 09:45:32 PST 2001


----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
>What an amazing pack of fuckups
>NYC Dems are today. AFAIC, the Bloomberg victory also stands as a
stunning
>indictment of the centrist strategy the Dems continue to pursue in the
>national arena.

How the hell you can say that when the two most progressive Dems went into the runoff? This was a demolition derby among progressives supporting two very progressive candidates.

The Dems didn't lose due to a centrist message-- they lost because progressives tore each others hearts out because different partisans each had a candidate they thought worth killing each other over.

It was the GOP who used the centrist strategy, voting in the primary for a lifelong Democrat as the only chance they had to keep the mayorship.

God, when all people have is a single rhetorical hammer, all they can see is a frigging nail.

-- Nathan Newman



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