It's not often when daily kos,
Ed Kilgore and
Marshall Wittman all agree on something, but Bush's nomination of Scalito appears to be one of those moments. Some of us relish the fight. (Kilgore, to his credit, seems to be ready for the fight as well.) Wittman seems to fear it.
From Wittman:
[T]he President has played the polarization card. . . . The politics of polarization has been the governing philosophy of the Bushies. It got them re-elected and it is the only way they know to govern. With this understanding, the Alito nomination makes complete sense. . . . The Rovian solution to all of the Administration woes is a to give a hot-button treat to the base and attempt to trick the Democrats into alienating swing traditionalist values voters.
Wittman fears this scenario, but offers nothing to counter. He shakes in fear, ignoring the counsel of a pretty good politician by the name of Bill Clinton:
Clinton attributed Republicans' control of Congress to Democratic candidates' inability or unwillingness to "stand up and be heard" on issues that matter to people. For example, he said, Democrats too often are unwilling to talk about abortion because they're afraid of virulent reactions from anti-abortion groups.
"So how come we can't talk about it?" he asked. "Because we basically let political ads turn every player in this drama into a two-dimensional cartoon instead of a three-dimensional person."
Bill Clinton is NOT afraid, why is the Moose? daily kos (based on Markos' previous post) stands with Bill Clinton on this. Where is the Moose standing?