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Instant CongressWords to live byIn the Beltway’s eyes, Markos leads a movement of progressives in the blogosphere. But this is inaccurate, and Markos would be the first to tell you so. Markos doesn’t lead the movement. He stands in front of it and is symbolic of it, but the movement’s direction and interests flow directly from the people who compose it. The movement is a bottom-up thing, not something that a guy leads from the top. It’s probably comforting for Democratic politicians to believe that Markos leads the movement in the progressive blogosphere. That being the case, all they have to do is soothe the savage breasts of Markos and other rabble-rousing bloggers and then get back to business as usual. That’s why Democratic politicians are so unfailingly solicitous of the liberal bloggers. Subscribe Buttons                    | ||
Unity 08?
But let's suppose the major parties in the end, nominate the dynastic duo -- Clinton and Bush -- so that Unity 08 gets its pick of all the rest and puts together an amazing ticket with clout and money and excitement behind it, from Edwards and Obama to Giulani and a dark horse or two with no name (yet.)
Of course any good party member's politically correct answer now would be to "support my party's nominee." That's what all the candidates would say too -- right up until they decide it's in their best interests to do otherwise. Lieberman's unsettling and unsought success playing the party game against itself once he felt free to do so, seemed singular at the time but I'm not so sure. Maybe in the way he ran and won, he's more of a leader than we gave him credit for, or a canary in the mine shaft at least, depending on how this turns out.
So at points along the way we get to change our answer, just like the bruised and rejected candidates do, and ask ourselves which ticket for which reasons, all taken together, fit MY interests and concerns best. Unity 08 isn't even the most outlandish possibility; who KNOWS what could happen between now and then and what choices we might have before us?