Well, I read the column and whereby I usually find a lot to agree with in Richard Cohen's columns this one seemed to be a toe-the-line, cut-your-hair & quit singin'-the-blues or face another loss...

As a progressive, I feel that if the Dems can't come 'round from their Bushliteness then they deserve to lose the '06 election... It is their election to loose and as per usual they are going to do the best they can at doing just that...

But if one looks historically at just how the Republican Party has gona about winning elections it has been from riling people up with red herring issues such as flag burning, abortion and gay rights and they do play on people anger very well... The NASCAR dads are a perfect example of very angry people who vote...

The brownshirt goons here in Mudcat and outside of Mudcat are about as angry a bunch as I've even encountered... They are as bad and as angry as the rednecks who fought the civil rights movement in the south but guess what: they voted and still do so, hey, maybe the Dems are trying to piss off progressives thinking that Greens and Indpendants will be motivated to vote against the Repubs... Hey, it has worked for the Repubs who now have Southern Man in their posket inspite of the fact that Southern Man has been hurt bu the Bush policies???

Go figure???

Hey, if the Dems' looze 'casue the pissed off too many p0rogressive or loose 'cause they give in, at least there does seem to be an over change in their strategy towerd the formulas that have worked so well for the Repubs...

And, hey, I've met this Webb guy in Virginia and though he ain't a Green, I could vote for him against George Allen whoes only attribute is that his daddy was the coach of the Washington Redskins... Other than that, George Allen hasn't shown me much as a leader... Loyal follower, yeah... But leader, no...

Bobert