They Just Can't Help Themselves

B-Daddy here. The picture at left is supposed to represent a donkey's foot giving the boot to a "blue dog." Over at Slate.com, nut-roots blogger Glenn Greenwald looks at the extremely low approval ratings of Congress and immediately concludes that, clearly, Congress isn't "progressive" enough. His solution? Launch internecine warfare to purge the ideologically impure from the ranks of Democrat office holders. His organization, Blue America, intends to do exactly that. Doesn't this carry risks, you ask? Not for the true believer. Best to sum up his logic by excerpting one paragraph:

The Blue America campaign also ran ads against Blue Dog Rep. John Barrow in Georgia, who did have a progressive primary challenger, state Sen. Regina Thomas. It was always clear that Barrow was highly likely to defeat Thomas in the primary. It was also clear that if Thomas beat the odds and won the primary, her chances of beating the Republican in the general election was far less than the chances of the more conservative and incumbent Barrow, who himself had to fight hard to win reelection in 2006. Knowing that a Barrow defeat in the primary might make a Republican win more likely in November, Blue America nonetheless ran ads against him. [emphasis BwD's] We believed that even if Barrow prevailed in his primary (as he ultimately did), the ad campaign against him would undermine his reputation in his district and could thus force Barrow, the Blue Dog Caucus and the Democratic leadership to devote far more resources to defending his seat for November. That is what it means to attach a price to trampling on the political values of Democratic supporters.

By the way, we at BwD, welcome this tom-foolery on the part of the nut-roots crowd. It only proves that they are still adolescents at heart, and will never be ready to take power or be taken seriously.

H/T RealClearPolitics