GOP vs. GOP

[Brad DeLong <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Stop it, Brad. "Assassin," insinuations that only Democans care
> about good things, etc.

It's not my "insinuation.": It's your statements, statements like:

> ... Brad, hang it up. The thing is, we don't accept your iron cage.
> We don't accept defeat. We won't go away. Maybe we're mad, whether
> happy or not, but you won't make nice but unhappy liberals out of
> us. We don't register our suceess by our influence on the DLC. What
> matters is a popular movement. Whether that happens only after the
> election will show. Btw, if we are so deluded, why do you hang out
> with us, rather than with your sane liberal friends? And stop
> blaming Nader for your guy's inadequacies. If he loses, _he_ blew a
> near-sure thing. Don't look to us, we do not share his values and
> priorities, to pull your chestnuts out of the fire...

A pro-union majority on the NLRB, workplace safety rules, a more
progressive income tax, environmental protection--those are Al Gore's
priorities and values, those are the things that you do not share.
Those are the chestnuts that you did not want to pull out of the
fire. And lo and behold, they weren't pulled out of the fire, and
we--sorry, *I*, you do not share my values and priorities--have lost
a good deal.

So, once again, if *you* don't share my values and priorities to the
extent of thinking that George W. Bush's policies are a bad idea, I
don't know what you are doing here. And if you do think that the
repeal of the ergonomics rules, the abandonment of steps toward CO2
regulation, and the regressive income tax cut are bad things, then I
think your self diagnosis:

> I am a mushbrain who would happily sacrifice the well-being of my
> purported constituency to an ideological delusion.

hit the nail squarely on the head. The Nader campaign of 2000 was a
very expensive, stupid, and counterproductive enterprise.


Brad DeLong