Who the hell cares?

Who the hell cares?

"I can't believe how much time the liberal blogosphere wastes on the DNC Chairman contest," grumbles Blue State Grumblings. He has a couple points: the bytes expended on this are out of all proportion to its importance. I think we all understand that the DNC chair fight is just a surrogate for the Direction Of The Party debate. Then he examines the Pelosi-Reid push for anti-choice Tim Roemer and notes:

Democrats do need to realize that unless we can win some anti-abortion, anti-flag burning and pro-privatization voters, we can't be a 50 state party.

Fair enough - but ONLY so far as we hold our ground on the actual substance. As long as this debate is just about reframing our stands on the issues, that's a good and valuable thing.

But he concludes:

Establishing a litmus test for every prominent Democrat is a sure way to guarantee that these voters will never vote Democratic again and that this so-called 50 state strategy will be doomed to failure.

This slips down the slope that so many want us to slide down, which is the argument that the problem with the Democratic Party is that it's full of too many damn Democrats. I went sledding with my nephew this weekend and that's the only slippery slope I'm going down. You go down too many slippery slopes, you get a cold dose of snow in your face...

Anyway I'd rather see Howard Dean running for president again than running the DNC.