Daschle
by ChrisNovember 3rd, 2004 3:04 pm
It’s pretty amazing that the Republican party and its media apparatus has been able to portray a very moderate, gentle and soft spoken man like Tom Dachle as some sort of fire breathing, baby eating, Castro loving monster of the extreme left. Amazing but true. If they could do it to him, they can do it to anybody.
While Daschle’s political leanings are to the right of my own, I’m still sorry to see such a dignified Senator go. Unfortunately, his own political survival in a very red state made it difficult for him to function as minority or majority leader.
Hopefully the Democrats will pick somebody from a deep blue state as their next minority leader. Somebody who really can breath some fire and speak truth to the Republican majority, with the full support of his or her own constituents. Durbin, of Illinois, appears to be the favorite du jour. I’ll have to look into him more closely, but I suppose he fits the bill.
I know of a Senator from a deep blue state who just received somewhere in the range of 55 million votes. I don’t know whether or not he would even want the job, but I think Kerry would make a great choice. Unlike Durbin, or many other choices, he is very well known to the American people and would be seen as a natural adversary to Bush and one they would listen to. Additionally, with his own presidential ambitions presumably extinguished, he would be able to fight the good fight without fear of what it may do to his chances in Iowa. Now how many Democratic Senators have that going for them?
