Freedom & Progress

The Bullmoose gets it. As he often does, Marshall Whittmann writes eloquently today on the need for Democrats to get behind a strategy for victory in Iraq instead of advocating a policy of retreat and surrender to the enemy. Towit, Whittman notes that the strategy of Nancy Pelosi as articulated by Howard Dean would never be endorsed by Democratic heroes such as Scoop Jackson, John Kennedy, Harry Truman, or Franklin Roosevelt. Further, Whittmann ponders,

You would think that a minority party would want to expand its ranks rather than expel those who express heterodoxal thoughts. Perhaps it is true that conservatives seek converts and liberals excommunicate heretics. If Scoop Jackson types are unwelcome in the party, the donkey may spend many more years in the roaming in the wilderness.

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