Stop — or I’ll Say Stop Again

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Can you think of anything more emblematic of the impotence, unseriousness, tone-deafness, dogma-drunkenness, and general fecklessness of modern Democratic politics than a group that is raising money in order to fund a mass mailing of “warning” letters to major Republican donors hoping to deter donations with vaguely worded threats of legal trouble and public exposure? Seriously, my own sympathies aside, if this is how progressive politics brings it when just about every condition is optimal for victory, they deserve to get their asses handed to them in November. It’s the law of the jungle — twerps neither survive nor deserve to.

Via Malkin (Who rather dramatically calls this “intimidation,” which I would submit requires some actual capacity to intimidate on the part of the actor and some capacity to care on the part of the target. When Paris Hilton’s lap dog yaps at a passing car, is the car intimidated?)

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3 Comments

  1. Patrick  •  Aug 8, 2008 @8:48 am

    The sadly departed netauthority hoax would have been more effective, and yet if someone on the right were doing something so stupid, Ms. Malkin’s response would seem tame in comparison to the shouting we’d hear from the left.

  2. Eduardo  •  Aug 8, 2008 @9:57 am

    That’s… ugly. What could these letters possibly do? Scare people who are ready to be assholes from being assholes?

    There’s little I hate more than liberal activism. It is usually so misguided and fruitless. It usually has no empowering aspects for the communities it claims to represent, but it sure does make the activists feel good! Even when the tactic fails miserably. At least with us leftists, when our tactics fail miserably, we know it and are used to failure.

    I don’t think I could call this, or Obama’s politics, progressive, however. It seems totally reactive (even if it is being done before something “bad” happens).

  3. Patrick  •  Aug 11, 2008 @9:19 am

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