> If the Democrats had any brains right now, they'd run some populist
> celebrity like Michael Moore or Martin Sheen for office. Joseph
> Liberman? Howard Dean? Dennis Kookspinach? Which politician
> unemployment office did the Democrats find these people? Do they have
> some lab somewhere where they combine Walter Mondale's DNA with that
> of Michael Dukakis? Where are the fucking women candidates?
Precisely. But it seems that the Democrats have long since lost whatever political smarts they once had. A pity. It's going to be a long hard slog to build up another party which was even as far left as the Dems in FDR's day. But another Great Depression might do it.
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