It’s not my intention to make this blog Jon Keller Watch, but this week’s interview with Marty Meehan was just too rich. On the Alito hearings, he asks:
Yet again, Democrats wound up taking legitimate policy differences…and kind of squandering the argument in overheated rhetoric that tried to paint the other side as extreme — a side that didn’t really look extreme to many Americans. Isn’t this in fact a chronic problem with your party?
Then, a minute later:
Karl Rove…laid out the Republican argument in the election year. He said, we face “a ruthless enemy and need a commander in chief and Congress who understand the nature of the threat and the gravity of the moment that America finds it. President Bush and the Republican Party do get it. Unfortunately the same can not be said for many Democrats.” Hasn’t your party’s decision to make wiretapping a major issue… made Karl Rove’s plan a smart one?
So… overheated rhetoric is good when "many Americans" buy it, bad when they don’t? Of course, Rove is hardly laying out legitimate policy differences.
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