Legal Commentary

Yes, Mark Penn Stinks But . . .

By Big Tent Democrat

By Big Tent Democrat

Josh Marshall's reader has got to be kidding me:

Penn was never going to catch on to this whole 'change' thing because to Penn 'change' is too wrapped up in the Democratic populism that he has been trying to exterminate in the Democratic Party since the 90s. It is the great irony of this campaign that Penn, champion of the DLC and sworn enemy of populists like Greenberg, Borosage, and Shrum, is now being forced to churn out populist messaging in the dying days of the campaign.

Gammon. David Axelrod the great populist strategist? Obama the great populist candidate? What did Axelrod do right? He realized his CANDIDATE, an incredibly talented one, was the message. Obama is the change. Not any issue Obama is trumpeting. As for the populist MESSAGE? Edwards withdrew from the race before Super Tuesday.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).