Apologize for the inane Dean and Shrillary references, just having fun with it.
My question is: Why Plamegate?
But it goes deeper, obviously....
That's the big difference between us and them. Out party is a Real Party, with everyone talking past one another, all generating messages and being all progressive; their party is more like a prayer meeting: one anointed head saying all the things that need to be pushed on the 'national agenda', for this they are very successful! We suck at that, on the other hand. But it's okay, because we can't be bothered with trvialities like conformity, in fact we are congenitally incapable of conformity.
So our message always seems garbled, incoherent, even manic compared to theirs which is like frikkin' clockwork.
Okay, so my question:
Who coined "Plamegate"? Us, or them? Wakikipedia doesn't have that info. I'm concerned - and this is typical Democrat, running around all alarmed at one damned thing or another - about the pedigree of our language. Yes, like the French, I am... how you say... protective of our internal language. My question: I thought last week someone suggested that it be "RoveGate". Many people suggested "TraitorGate"... shrill?
Maybe I shouldn't tarnish our leaders... y'know, that's something else the GOP does not do. If I had a nickel for every time I vomited over a reference to Reagan as God, well there ya go. Point is, we should acknowledge how different we are, and not second-guess. One of the problems of having this huge tent (as opposed to their fancy, but very narrow one) is that all five columns try to squeeze themselves in. The Republican response to fifth columnists around us would obviously be search and seizure, forfeiture of personal goods, and possible incarceration without compense; things we felt very strongly about, even back then. Our response to fifth columnists is more along the lines of "Fuck! I can't believe they're spoiling my party!"
And yet we use the term "PlameGate", which I'm sure we never coined here in Dkos-land. The reason is, I think, that the MSM, SCLM, whatev, have adopted that as their familiar term.
And guess who still holds the cards? Who still calls the shots?
I think we should take a vote on this. But perhaps we are so enamored with ourselves that our relationship with the media has to be considered so carefully that we adopt their language as a kind of token sanguiniety, a bone to the MSM dog that we've been kicking around. Were that we were so deserving of such loyalty, if we ever enjoyed it. There are precious few tools available to the common man, and lately the press ain't one of them. Clarence Darrow had to defend a man who determined that only two means of power are available to the common man (this against the owners the mines in Utah): 1) his skill, and 2) violence; he convinced the jury, I suppose, that this was at least not incongruent with the struggle.
What we call Plamegate is like, wow, much more important to me than I first thought.
Thanks, dk, for letting me vent.
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I meant to close with "Here's what we're good at. Creating real great hero-type guys like this one.