Arianna Huffington on the Kaine speech

[IndianaGreen]

The Democratic Response: My Worst Fears Realized

Arianna Huffington

All my worst fears about the Democratic response to the State of the Union address being given by Virginia Gov Kaine were realized tonight when he completely failed to take on the president on his greatest vulnerability -- the war in Iraq. “Second guessing is not a strategy,” Bush said -- but Kaine didn’t even bother to second-guess.

Instead, he told us “together, we can do better” (I swear he did!) and that “our greatest need is to heal our partisan wounds.” Now if I can only figure out how to heal these fresh wounds on my wrists, we’ll be fine. At least, together we’ll be fine.

While Kaine was droning on, I closed my eyes and imagined Jack Murtha giving the response, someone with the authority to do much more than second guess -- to offer an alternative strategy on Iraq and the war on terror, as opposed to Kaine’s program of “service and competent management.” And I thought “competence” had gone out of vogue with Michael Dukakis.

As for the Kaine bromide, “common sense solutions to common problems” -- who came up with that one? Fire them immediately. Please.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-democratic-response-_b_14888.html

[reality based]

1. Who is responsible for this mess?

Hold them accountable.

[The Whiskey Priest]

2. I am afraid Huff

is correctly on point.

[Pithy Cherub]

3. Kaine's response didn't have a hailing frequency to Inspiration.

It definitely connected on bromides though...

[Crunchy Frog]

4. The only Democratic response that I care about

is the one given yesterday by Wes Clark. That one kicked ass.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. Oh ghee

I can't understsnd why we keep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz losing.

[BigYawn]

6. Kaine is a proven winner in a red state, a governor at that...

Obviously his approach to politics is actually winning,
versus extreme left wing politics which wins only in
dominant blue states, mainly in big cities.

I am sorry, but I will take the Kaine route to achieving
democratic majority over firebreathing, chest thumping,
Ted Kennedy rheotric.

[IndianaGreen]

8. The "Kaine route" is homophobia and anti-LGBT legislation

He is even opposed to civil unions!

[WildEyedLiberal]

9. The "Kaine route" retains WHICH Democratic principles?

I want the DLC apologists to explain to me how constantly sacrificing liberal principles helps the party in the end.

Why couldn't Kerry have given the rebuttal? It's like the party wants to pretend that he doesn't exist anymore because he interferes with the DLC Hillary '08 agenda or something.

[High Plains]

11. Heh. Your screen name is oddly appropriate for Kaine's speech.

[ProudDad]

12. Maybe the Dems

SHOULD TRY A POPULIST LINE DAMN IT!!!!!

I don't care how hard they try the majority of the brainwashed american sheeple are going to vote for a real republican over a faux republican EVERY FREAKIN' TIME!!!

These Dinos ain't gonna change a fucking thing in this country.

So, I say, Fuck the empire! and fuck all of those tin-pot little emperors in waiting!

There are better places in this world than the belly of the beast.

[sendero]

14. Your proposition...

... is that the "center" is comprised of stepford drones, incapable of passion, incapable of outrage, incapable of vision.

That is a load of horseshit, and opinions like yours are what has killed the Democratic party, not Senator Kennedy's.

[hvn_nbr_2]

7. I'm unloading stock in sleeping pill companies

I wish she had added, "Blah blah is not a position on issues."

together we can do better heal our partisan wounds service and competent management common sense solutions to common problems

I'm unloading stock in sleeping pill companies. They're all gonna go out of business with competition like this.

[Lexingtonian]

10. funny

Almost my response, exactly: someone should be fired for this embarrassment.

[tsuki]

13. You know, we're being fed a bunch of fertilizer about the

Kaine win. There is a Governor won long before Americans began "seeing" through Bushco. The response should have been given by Governor Brian Schweitzer. Oops, I guess he's too far from the Beltway to be effective.