[lbo-talk] Hillary gets a primary challenge

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Dec 5 10:46:57 PST 2005


On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:


> This was a press release designed to get hacks to come to the announcement
> event. But the URL for the website was there, complete with contrib and
> volunteering links:
>
>> A list of Tasini's positions can be found at
>> <http://www.tasinifornewyork.org> the campaign's website.

Fair enough. The only mistake then was to forget to make all his friends link to it so it would show up at the top of google. (Or buy "tasini")


> Hillary sucks, and it'd be a wonderful blow to her presidential ambitions
> (and a fine example to pro-war Dems) if she got badly bloodied in the
> Senate primary.

That would be good for everyone, even the most conventional Dems, because Hillary can never be president (because she's not from the South. Until the Dems change the political geography of the country, it's no accident their only presidents have been Southerners).

But what would be even better was if a strong Tasini showing drove her and other Democratic notables to the left. Not only would that be a good result, but it would give us a replicable model of how to do it again. It would offer a medium term answer to what is to be done with that party.

Michael



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