In Ellen Goodman's column today...

(Courtesy of the Boston Globe) Mike Dukakis’ presidential campaign manager Susan Estrich is quoted as say the following:

“The trouble is with most democrats is that traditionally we’re not mean enough. Dukakis wasn’t. I wasn’t”.

Ah Susan Estrich no one wallows in self-loathing better than her…hell her self imposed status as “democratic loser” is money in the bank these days.
It is not because she went off a cliff with the Duke in 1988 either, hell, we ALL did that.
No Susan, has long since gone chasing the big bucks as a token liberal on the Fox News Network.
So in return for a big pay day she jobs for the likes of the dipsomaniacal Laura Ingraham or the ever-shrill Sean Hannity.
Susan has become a quisling liberal, like 96.9 FM’s Jim Braude her real job is to lose arguments with bombastic conservative rabble rousers-nothing more.
So is it any wonder that we find her whining hopelessly on the op-ed page?
Her position as Rupert Murdoch’s in-house loser precludes an attempt on her part to engage in real ideological warfare on cable TV assuming she was so inclined to take such a risk.
There is a strong counter-cultural aspect to conservatism these days, they have their own networks, think tanks, radio shows, magazines and nigh limitless sources of funding.
Too bad the ideology has become corrupt and encrusted with undeliverable promises-or all this might be a whole lot scarier than it already is.
Movement conservatism is also in the process of creating and marketing its own brand of liberalism, typically scared wretched specimens…intelligent of course but also too craven to beat the brainless likes of Bill O’Reilly in a shouting match.
Eventually so the logic goes these quivering quislings and counterfeits will somehow replace the real liberal democrats and true conservative ideological hegemony will somehow dawn, beautiful before all men.

I dunno, I think I’d sooner take political pugilism lessons from Arnold Stang than Ms. Estrich.
Because when you are a congenital weakling and professional loser, everyone looks hapless and helpless.
The pity of it is, she could’ve been a leader in the Democratic Party…but alas the problem isn’t that WE aren’t tough enough, it is that SHE isn’t tough enough.
And that is what pays her salary.

Sick
Demented
Typical