More trouble for the Democratic Party, as the nutroots continue to push the party into a far left corner. It's now being reported that the Democrats are pulling out of a scheduled August debate in Nevada on Fox News. The stampede started when John Edwards said that he wouldn't participate in the debate, on the theory that Fox isn't liberal enough for the Democrats. The Edwards campaign announced this "principled" decision in an email to the nutroots' beehive, the Daily Kos. The rest of the party has now fallen into line, as none of the contenders apparently was willing to risk the displeasure of the party's nuttiest fringe.
That's good for the Republicans, bad for the Democrats. The original idea of the Nevada debate was to appeal to swing voters in the western states.
This is, indeed good news for Republicans, especially if they end up with a centrist-type candidate like Rudy Giuliani. The appeal of a Giuliani candidacy to the vast, unwashed middle will more than make up for the carping of the purists on the right.
I'm not crazy about Giuliani either on social issues where he's much more liberal than I, or on personal issues, where he clearly has a lot of baggage. But I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt if my choices end up between any Democrat and him.
I think that they would have been idiots to appear on FOX. Who knows how it would have been edited, for example.
ReplyDeleteIf that's a radical left move, count me in.
There were agreements in place for the debate to be aired live. Unless you are one of the nutballs who still believes that 9/11 was an inside job, it's hard to believe that any intelligent person would think something would be done by FOX News. For one thing, given that other news organizations would be covering the debate (print journalists, for example), wouldn't it be hard to "edit" the film without them noticing? Or is it inconceivable to the nutroots that the problem is with their own candidates and not what network airs their debates?
ReplyDeleteIf Republicans had gone through the same level of pearl-clutching over ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS, or MSNBC hosting a presidential debate, the left would be laughing derisively. And they should. Being this shrill and paranoid about which network shows one's debates shows more distrust of themselves than the network. But I'm all for the radical left making the Democrats into completely hapless losers.