Reply #68: The DLC is obsessive. So is the GOP.

[Armstead]

The DLC is obsessed with killing off the basic principles of liberalism. Unfortunately, they are the best allies the GOP has because of that.

A typical example from the excerpt above by Will Marshal: "But let's be honest: Cultural elites with influence in the party often give off more than a whiff of fashionable anti-Americanism. They tend to equate patriotism with jingoism, see America more as a global bully than as a victim of a terrorist conspiracy, haul out the tired Vietnam metaphor anytime U.S. troops encounter difficulty abroad, and are as hypercritical of America's faults as they are forgiving of those of our adversaries."

That kind of horseshit is walking right into the GOP trap.

Anyone who is smart and successful and liberal and HONEST about America's dark side abroad is automatucally part of an "anti-American cultural elite"?

Gimme a fucking break. Anyone who spouts that kind of GOP nonsense is no friend of mine. They also are no challemnger to the right-wing's demonization of nanyone who is not a rah-rah Corporate Conservative.