[lbo-talk] Dems force Hackett out of race

[Dennis Perrin]

> The problem for Hackett is that a bunch of other folks -- Brown, the 
> Blogs,
> DFA etc. -- all raised the funds needed for Hackett's campaign last year.
> Now, Hackett decides to run for Senate and he has to raise his own money 
> and
> it's not happening.  So he blames everyone else for the fact that he can't
> raise money to run a more rightwing campaign than Brown, who he has
> repeatedly attacked as too liberal.
>
> As Kos has noted, other folks with few resources, from Wellstone to Obama,
> have preservered against the "Democratic establishment" and won their 
> races.
> Hackett is really being a sour grapes kind of guy.  I was somewhat 
> undecided
> on the whole Hackett phenomena early on, but after his petulant exit from
> the race, I'm glad he's gone.
>
> Nathan Newman

Amen. The more I read about Hackett, the more I support Brown. Online libs 
like Kos and Majikthise, who positively swoon over Hackett (they love a man 
in a uniform, a la Gang of Four), are more about raising their profiles and 
supposed political influence than about affecting real social change. 
Bourgeois liberals like them at a time like this are making me, if not a 
Marxist, then something awfully close.

Dennis