Paul Hackett Redux

Posted at 5:56 pm on Monday, February 20, 2006, in Uncategorized, and tagged iraq, tapper.

Jake Tapper has asked his readers to comment on the Paul Hackett story. I obliged…

I noted on my blog when the news that Hackett resigned: “As the republican vice president shoots his hunting buddy in the face, the democrats shoot their Senate hopes in the foot, forcing Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett Hackett ‘to drop out of the Senate primary.’“

It is a clearly short-sighted reactionary response from a party internally conflicted. The race for democratic candidate in ’08 is so wide and varied (which, in my opinion, is a good thing), the democrats are frightened that the message being channeled to the American people from their party is one that the American people can not understand. In Bush’s America, there is black and white, no grey. You are either for the war, or against in entirely (traitors). And the democratic powers-that-be are running their party in Bush’s grey-free world. (This is a silent Rove victory.)

Paul Hackett is a viable candidate with an Iraq war background, and a grudge against the president. How could that possibly be a bad thing for a democratic party fighting for legitimacy?

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