Possibly it's due to the two beers I've had tonight, but the only thing that pops into my head from this Kos Diary story that suggests that Dean is about to get the crucial Jimmy Carter endorsement is "Why the heck isn't Dean getting endorsements from Democrats that have actually, like, won Presidential elections?"
Granted, Carter actually did in 1976, but so would have my dead goldfish if it had somehow gotten the Democratic nomination. I suppose that courting them makes sense in the primary, but in the world of the general election Carter and Gore stop being liberal icons and start being the guys beaten in 1980 and 2000. Brass ring is still Bill Clinton, folks...
...ach, don't mind me; I'm listening to the Warren Zevon anthology and I'm a little sad. Good for Dean if he can get it, I suppose.
Clinton did not endorse the man who became president in 2000 (although he did pick the winner), so I wouldn't put quite so much stock in his endorsement.
Posted by: Bryguy | January 13, 2004 at 11:29 PM
Fine, brass ring for Democrats, then. Sheesh. :)
Moe
PS: I really should add a link to the Constitution in the reference section anyway...
Posted by: Moe Lane | January 13, 2004 at 11:35 PM
"...don't the trees look like crucified thieves...."
Something like that. Damn he was good. I worked with him briefly, and there's always the risk that a hero won't stand up to that kind of scrutiny. But he was funny, whip-smart, and most of all, kind. I wish I'd got to know him better.
Posted by: Harley | January 13, 2004 at 11:37 PM
"Damn he was good."
Yeah.
(pause)
I think that it'd probably be better if I didn't write blogposts while listening to him anymore. I'm usually a happy-go-lucky sort, after all...
Posted by: Moe Lane | January 13, 2004 at 11:43 PM
The Carter endorsement will certainly have an effect, some of it negative, from the right who viewed him as a well meaning but ineffectual president, some of it positive from older (read anecdotal) Democrats who have a deep and abiding respect for the man but who could not stand Bill Clinton or bring themselves to vote for him or his vice president (rightly or wrongly, and it was not a point of argumentation*). Since one of them fought in WW2 and they were deeply patriotic, they felt they had to vote, however. Being retired they lived in Florida...
And they weren't no greenies.
* They're my freaking grandparents, you don't argue with their political viewpoints, you nod politely as you are dragged ten minutes away to specifically go to an Arby's because someone mentioned in passing that they liked Arby's Fresh Market Sandwiches. God bless 'em, may they see a Bushless White House. (Democratic successor or not)
Posted by: Carpbasman | January 14, 2004 at 04:12 AM
"Damn he was good."
I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to it yet. How is it?
Doug M.
Posted by: Doug Muir | January 14, 2004 at 04:24 AM
"I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to it yet. How is it?"
Good. The booklet that came with can make you sad, though.
Posted by: Moe Lane | January 14, 2004 at 06:42 AM