News Update

I found this to be a little funny. The idea that a propaganda war can be waged via text messaging really makes me question what future conflicts will looks like. The fact that China regularly is the source of official and unofficial attacks on U.S. web sites makes me wonder how well I'll be able to pay my cable bill the next time Taiwan tries to ruffle some feathers.

Also, in the event that you missed it, Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CO), is under attack from Ned Lamont in the Democrat primary. What is surprising is not that Lieberman, who has supported the war in Iraq and many of President Bush's policies for the war on terror, is under attack by the left wing of his party. That's to be expected. What is surprising to me is that the left wing of the party in general is siding with Lamont. I don't get it. Help me out here.

President Clinton won two elections with a centrist message. Compassionate reform was the order of the day under his administration. Al Gore broke away from that during the 2000 campaign for a message of the people vs. the powerful, overlooking the fact that Gore's father was a senator and powerful figure in Tennessee politics. Paging Dr. Irony.

Senator Kerry (D-MA) also left the middle ground in a bid to outrace Howard Dean to the far left in the 2004 primary. How well did that work out for him? He was unable to defeat a president that barely scraped together 51% of the vote, and is only now recovering from a 30% approval rating. Kerry should have cleaned Bush's clock. He went far left, typical Democrat, support the unions, rhetoric without change, etc.

As long as the Dem's keep attacking their center, the Republicans will be able to keep trouncing them. So why do they keep going further left? And who's going to pull them out of this leftward tailspin?

Anyone? Bueller?