The Right Enemies
Rob Long ·
Jun 8, 2010 at 10:24am
Mickey Kaus -- blogger, author, senate candidate -- is running against Barbara Boxer today in the California Primary.
Let me make an out-of-the-box prediction: he's going to lose. But he might win enough votes to make his point.
Which is that the Democratic Party has lost touch with its common-sense, working class roots. On immigration, on big labor unions, on education.
He calls his campaign a "wake-up call" to the Democratic Party establishment.
I like Mickey a lot. He's a smart, funny, principled, and deeply thoughtful guy. There's nothing knee-jerk about him. Which is why the Left, in general, hates him.
To me, he's a little bit like Sarah Palin. If those guys hate him, then he must be doing something right.
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May '10
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If he was running in the general election and I lived in California, I'd probably vote for him. Why? Because he gets the single biggest issue right. And based on that, I think he could be won over by fact and data to other intelligent positions. The biggest problem with Democrats is that there are no longer any Scoop Jacksons or Zell Millers left. Robert Casey? Puhleeze.
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Well, Duane, I like your optimism. But Mickey is a pretty solid liberal. I think he's done all the moving-to-the-center he's ever going to do.
But that's part of the tragedy of the Democratic Party, where he's essentially a pariah because he dissents on a few key issues: his views are about as mainstream as they come, but they're heresy to a party controlled by unions and special interest groups.
May '10
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I'm curious where you got the screen shot of the Democratic primary ballot Rob? Was that taken by your iPhone in the booth?
And BTW Happy Birthday! What election outcome would you wish for as your present?
May '10
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Rob Long: Well, Duane, I like your optimism. But Mickey is a pretty solid liberal. I think he's done all the moving-to-the-center he's ever going to do.
But that's part of the tragedy of the Democratic Party, where he's essentially a pariah because he dissents on a few key issues: his views are about as mainstream as they come, but they're heresy to a party controlled by unions and special interest groups. · Jun 8 at 10:38am
Well, you know him personally, I don't. But where welfare reform took root there is the capability to see innovations elsewhere. And if all he ever did was to help break the government union stranglehold on the several states, he would have served his country better than, say, supernumeraries like John Ensign.