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Truly, there is no ultimate reward for spinelessness. It's just a karma thing--if you compromise with the Rove team on your core values, you will get screwed sometime down the road. To wit:
Karmic mistake: AARP drew ire a couple of years ago for endorsing a Bush/GOP-backed prescription drug bill that opponents say will weaken Medicare. The AARP endorsement was instrumental in passing this bill, and you may remember seeing people burning their AARP membership cards in protest. My general read on this situation is that AARP wanted to pass a prescription drug bill, any prescription drug bill, and made the poor choice of putting their weight behind the only thing moving.
Karmic reward: Now AARP is getting slammed by the Republican propaganda machine with ads that paint the organization as pro-gay and anti-military--some say in retribution for its opposition to the Bush social security privatization plan. Check out Maureen Dowd in the NYT for a snarky discussion of the details of this smear campaign.
Karmic mistake: AARP drew ire a couple of years ago for endorsing a Bush/GOP-backed prescription drug bill that opponents say will weaken Medicare. The AARP endorsement was instrumental in passing this bill, and you may remember seeing people burning their AARP membership cards in protest. My general read on this situation is that AARP wanted to pass a prescription drug bill, any prescription drug bill, and made the poor choice of putting their weight behind the only thing moving.
Karmic reward: Now AARP is getting slammed by the Republican propaganda machine with ads that paint the organization as pro-gay and anti-military--some say in retribution for its opposition to the Bush social security privatization plan. Check out Maureen Dowd in the NYT for a snarky discussion of the details of this smear campaign.
posted by Waage on Monday, February 28, 2005
1 Comments:
Sometimes I wonder if the Republicans try to first get people/groups to compromise with them to drive a wedge between them and Democratic partisans and then turn around and hammer their previous ally, figuring partisans won't rally to their defense because they remember the past sellout. I call this theory the Cleland / Daschle / Lieberman theory of beating incumbents.
Steve
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