The once respectable E.J. Dionne: “Democrats were slow to come to Gore’s defense as he demanded recounts that were perfectly typical of very close elections-and seemed all the more justified in Florida, given the disenfranchisement of so many democratic voters.”
This coming from a liberal who once praised neoconservatives for being “right in insisting that a democratic system depended on citizens capable of exercising discipline and self-restraint…”
When did discipline and self-restraint come to mean acting like a well-trained chimp? “But…but…we always poked out that particular chad on the ballot because it was always the chad belonging to our party’s nomineeeeee, an..an… and they changed it on us, and (sniff)…and (sniff) so weeee voted for the wrong guyyyyy” (wipes tears from eyes).
Democrats were slow to come to Gore’s defense! What the…huh?
Concerning Dionne The American Spectator has this to say:
Whatever happened to E.J. Dionne, a liberal columnist for the Washington Post and Catholic intellectual, has become a representative of arguably the most serious problem with the left: the refusal to engage arguments from the other side. This leads to arguments that are repetitive, propagandistic, and frequently unmoored from reason and common sense. And in Dionne’s case, it didn’t have to be this way. He was once one of America’s most interesting journalists. (Read the rest)