Legal Commentary

Shooting Who In the Foot?

By Big Tent Democrat

maha has a post titled "Shooting Ourselves In the Foot." I'm less interested in the specifics of her post, which are a critique of FDL, but instead of her title. To me, it exemplifies a problem that Dem bloggers are not grasping - a lot of folks are not thinking of the Democratic Party as "ourselves." Haranguing them for feeling that way is not a political remedy for that problem. I touched on this issue in a post last Friday:

[L]et's accept the premise that internal carping has damaged Democratic electoral chances. So what do you do about that? Do you try and shout down the Left Flank of the Democratic Party in an off year election cycle? Is that really the thing to do? Of course not. What you do is pander address the concerns of this important disaffected sector.

To my way of thinking, maha's type of reaction is the actual "Shooting Ourselves In The Foot."

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 18, 2010 (boomark / email).