What’s the Democrats’ strategy for beating rabid far-right Senator Rick Santorum in the 2006 elections? Run Santorum-lite.
Schumer’s hand-picked candidate for the Pennsylvania Senate, Bob
Casey, is adamantly against abortion, supports the war, and (like the
rest of the Democrats) agrees with most of Bush’s program. Casey’s
candidacy is one more example of what the 2006 elections will be:
accepting the Bush regime’s terms of debate, giving up the right to
abortion, “staying the course” in Iraq – in short, if you can’t (or
don’t want to) beat ’em, join ’em.
As the Call from World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime puts it:
There is not going to be some savior from the
Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies
into “leaders” who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and
religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually
serves to demobilize people.
(source: “Top Democrats Hungry for Senate, a Pennsylvania Seat Looks Ripe”, NY Times, 3/5)