Yesterday was a great day to be a Democrat, with Michigan and Nevada further setting the stage for Democratic Victory in 2008.
Progressives have long supported Mitt Romney's campaign, but never moreso than in yesterday's Michigan primary. He is the weakest, and most divisive candidate for the Republican nomination. He spends millions of dollars of his own money viciously smearing his fellow Republican candidates. He engenders rancor amongst the other candidates, who obviously, pointedly, hate him.
Romney's victory in Michigan ensures his continued presence in the race. It leaves the entire nominating process up for grabs, leaving the so-called "coalition", splintered, tattered, on the whole about as presidential as a school-yard brawl.
Romney throws an already confused race into disarray by becoming the third different candidate to win a state. He came in second in both Iowa and New Hampshire, and won in tiny Wyoming.
[Update: Even in Victory Romney Proves Himself UnPresidential
The Democratic field last night stood in stark contrast to the weak set of food-fighting churls on the Republican side.
Democrats suffer from a surfeit of riches. The capable and increasingly personable Hillary. The inspiring, whip-smart, and affable Obama. The charming, middle-class warrior John Edwards. These are leaders, every single one, and with their combined performance in Nevada they moved the presidential nomination in the direction of party and national unity, broad and transformational change. Watching Nevada, last night, was like watching the preamble to a national race, run by mature, political professionals less concerned with scoring points or grabbing power and more interested in vision, moral leadership, and reclaiming the great future of the world's greatest nation.
It's a great day to be a Democrat! God bless America!
Rudy Giuliani got more votes in Michigan than Dennis Kucinich.
So that's some consolation. Kind of like a big slab of steak to hang over the party's fat black eye.
Meanwhile, the national electorate favors Dems over Republicans by massive numbers on Economic issues.
From the article:
MSNBC had no immediate comment on the ruling. It will likely be described as a First Amendment victory by the news organization, as lawyers for NBC had argued that it had a right, as a privately owned network, to determine whom to invite to the debate. The network changed the criteria for participation in the debate after other candidates dropped out of the Democratic race for president last week.
Support him or not, Kucinich was fighting for a very basic democratic principle; that being, participating in public discourse in an "open" democracy. Can we have open public discourse and debate if the channels of communication are privately held and act as gatekeepers ?
This morning, Democracy Now! provided Kucinich with an opportunity to reply to the Nevada Debate questions and will be posted on their web site later today: www.democracynow.org
If anyone missed it, you can get the full thing here.
The fight for Open Government goes on and Dennis Kucinich has made this part of the debate. He has proven himself a champion of progressive values, and while that has not translated in to elect ability, his work has served to keep those core American values alive and well in the face of withering opposition.
Remember the right-wing spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to keep voices like his out of the process. Even though many Democrats don't understand how voices like his lift electoral prospects now and into the future, it's clear that they do, that the Progressive movement is rising, and that real change is on the horizon: coming closer than ever before.
In other words, if he should somehow pull it off and win the nomination, the Republicans would by and large swallow their repugnance, rally round him and do their usual magnificent job of burnishing his image and smearing that of his Democratic opponent, and go on to sell the Republican brand once again to the voters.
Mitt is by far the weakest of the lot in head-to-head matchups against the Democratic field.
I join millions of other Democrats and Progressives in wishing, hoping and praying for Mitt Romney to win the nomination.
He's not only a phony, but he SO blatantly phony that even passing and casual political observers pick up on it. He's a giant screaming red siren on America's BS-Meter.
Regardless of the Dem nominee, if the Republicans nominate Flip Mitt Romney, Democrats will win a large enough majority and enough down ballot races to Lead as only JFK and FDR were able in the 20th century. They'll show Bush what a REAL mandate is, as opposed to one you craft from whole cloth.
He is an amatuer compared to how George Bush smeared McCain in 2000 in SC.
When Romney gets that bad then I will agree he is
" viciously smearing his fellow Republican candidates."