Memo to the Rocky: What?
The Saturday Rocky Mountain News contains this head-scratcher:
[Democratic Congressman Mark Udall is] a longtime war critic whose vote [against escalation] won't raise eyebrows in his liberal-leaning district. But he's also pondering a U.S. Senate race in 2008, when he would need votes statewide. Several observers said Udall has to tread carefully and make sure he doesn't get dragged too far to the left in coming months...
The most recent poll I could find shows that 63% of Americans are against the escalation and 56% believe that the war is "hopeless." In the words of Molly Ivins, "That is the center, you fools." Not many find anti-Iraq War votes leftist anymore.
[Democratic Congressman Mark Udall is] a longtime war critic whose vote [against escalation] won't raise eyebrows in his liberal-leaning district. But he's also pondering a U.S. Senate race in 2008, when he would need votes statewide. Several observers said Udall has to tread carefully and make sure he doesn't get dragged too far to the left in coming months...
The most recent poll I could find shows that 63% of Americans are against the escalation and 56% believe that the war is "hopeless." In the words of Molly Ivins, "That is the center, you fools." Not many find anti-Iraq War votes leftist anymore.
Labels: Iraq, Mark Udall, media, Molly Ivins
1 Comments:
It's just a knee-jerk thing. It doesn't matter how mainstream Udall's position is, his designated label is "latte-liberal". All during the 2006 election, the extremely conservative Joe Lieberman's official label was "moderate". The Democrats who failed to choose him to represent them in that election constituted the "extreme left". It makes things so much easier for the media. The stories practically write themselves.
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