Excuse me? "Where's the left?" Dee Dee Myers says you try to

[liveoaktx]

hide the crazy aunts and uncles..."
(MSNBC-Tweetie)

Blech.

[MissB]

1. Meh. I heard a big-tent comment there too (nt)

[Gin]

2. unlike the rethuglicans who put their crazy relatives in high office.

g

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. I happen to like my crazy aunts and uncles.

:7 :hi:

[wishlist]

4. Dee Dee Myers- a big disappointment so far

After her gutsy appearance diffusing the Sandy Berger flap on the Joe Scarborough show last week, I expected much better from her but so far she has not been a strong asset for the Democrats today.

[Warpy]

10. She's thrown her lot in with the DLC

and she's terrified of any shift to the left. That would mean she might be out of a job.

[HootieMcBoob]

12. I didn't think it was possible

but she was both sucking and blowing...

why oh why don't our people stand up for each other? Good God Almighty!!!!!
Man don't they ever freaking learn?

[Raven]

5. You know, it's true...

this is like having the minister over for dinner...everyone is scrubbed up and on their best behavior... This Convention does not have to convince us to vote for Kerry...it has to convince the 10% of the voting population who are on the fence and this group is not comfortable with wingnuts and people who braid their beards. Sorry, it's just the way it is.

[liveoaktx]

6. Since when, though, does being on the left equate to being a

wingnut or braided beardhead? Unfair to lump in anyone whose politics are left (environmental, anti-war, etc) with being some kind of nut.

[Raven]

8. You were the one who implied that the left were a bunch of nuts.

I think Will Pitt is pretty representative of the left and he has credentials and is doing a pretty respectable job of reporting this thing. Obviously the left contains a pretty large spectrum...some of them are a little over the top.

[liveoaktx]

13. No, I said that Dee Dee Myers implied that the left were a bunch

of nuts.

[Catch22Dem]

7. Unfortunately the convention isn't for us

As has already been pointed out, they aren't trying to convince US to vote for Kerry. They need to attract the fence sitters.

[kentuck]

9. We are supposed to behave as the Repubs did in 2000....

as Bush was "pretending" to be a moderate and a compssionate conservative, the right wing nuts and crazies just sat back and smiled because they thought Bush would take care of them when he got elected...and he did.

[IronLionZion]

11. Let's get Kerry elected first

then we'll worry about the left.

Hillary is pretty liberal and so is Kerry himself. There are plenty of liberals in the convention. And the last time I checked, improving education and health care is liberal, but Bush bashing is just redundant and useless.

Let's win this election OK?