Comments on: If I Were a High-Paid Democratic Consultant http://www.liberadio.com/2006/01/17/if-i-were-a-high-paid-democratic-consultant/ with Mary Mancini & Freddie O'Connell Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Freddie http://www.liberadio.com/2006/01/17/if-i-were-a-high-paid-democratic-consultant/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Freddie Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:07:50 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/2006/01/16/if-i-were-a-high-paid-democratic-consultant/#comment-96 Why did I write this post? An excerpt from Friday's <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=1527508" rel="nofollow">Note</a> gives some indication: <blockquote> As for the Democrats, they can be confident of exactly one thing: Republicans are (still) from Mars and Democrats are (still) from Venus. How else to explain Senator Harry Reid's (D-NV) extraordinary apology yesterday to his Republican colleagues? Last year Democrats laughed and laughed when George Bush was unable to think of a single mistake he had made as President. Today Republicans are quadrupled over in hysterics because of Harry Reid's apology to his Senate Republican colleagues for sending out a negative research document from his office. Failure to find weapons of mass destruction? No apology required. Nasty research document? A thousand pardons please. And that different approach sums up the difference between the two parties: as effective as Manley/Singer/Cutter have been in their war rooms, the Democratic Party leadership still has not internalized the rules of modern politics at a time of war and terror in the way the GOP has. (Of course, the Republicans are right: why didn't Reid's operation have that sent out by the DNC or the DSCC?) </blockquote> Why did I write this post? An excerpt from Friday’s Note gives some indication:

As for the Democrats, they can be confident of exactly one thing:

Republicans are (still) from Mars and Democrats are (still) from Venus.

How else to explain Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) extraordinary apology yesterday to his Republican colleagues?

Last year Democrats laughed and laughed when George Bush was unable to think of a single mistake he had made as President. Today Republicans are quadrupled over in hysterics because of Harry Reid’s apology to his Senate Republican colleagues for sending out a negative research document from his office.

Failure to find weapons of mass destruction? No apology required. Nasty research document? A thousand pardons please.

And that different approach sums up the difference between the two parties: as effective as Manley/Singer/Cutter have been in their war rooms, the Democratic Party leadership still has not internalized the rules of modern politics at a time of war and terror in the way the GOP has.

(Of course, the Republicans are right: why didn’t Reid’s operation have that sent out by the DNC or the DSCC?)

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