Quote of the Day
“What I can’t understand is why our party won’t heed the lessons of the one Democrat elected and re-elected to the White House in six decades.”
— Al From, founder of the “centrist” Democratic Leadership Council, expressing frustration at the rise of Howard Dean.
The reason the party won’t heed the lessons of Bill Clinton is this: The liberal media cocoon has convinced Democrat primary voters that Dean is “electable,” even that he’s the strongest candidate against Bush.
If you haven’t already, you have to read Peter Mulhern’s 2001 column, which mentioned the liberal media cocoon for the first time and explained how it helps Republicans. Since then Mickey Kaus has been coming up with example after example of the liberal media cocoon costing Democrats votes.
The cocoon has created a Dean world that is cut off from the real world. In Dean world, Southerners vote for a dovish Vermonter over a hawkish Texan. In Dean world, middle-class suburbanites vote for middle-class tax increases. In Dean world, socially conservative African-Americans vote for a candidate who signed the nation’s first civil unions law.
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