Smart Liberal

Good post-election analysis from the only liberals who make any sense - The New Republic (Marty Peretz). He states what Rush has stated from the get-go: the problem with John Kerry's campaign, was, well, John Kerry. He is the icon of everything that's wrong with the Democrats. I liked these two quotes, the first on John Kerry:

But the people did know that he was embarrassed by a certain muscular patriotism, by the historic place of Nature's God in the wider American community, by the simple and unadorned lives that most families live, from which his own new and unimaginably lavish lifestyle sets him apart.

And the second on liberals in general:

But the problem is that many Democrats have a downright hostile attitude to the flag, to patriotism itself, which is thought by some in the party to be a retrograde sentiment. And they have, at best, a queasy disposition towards religion. To tell the truth, it gives many of them the creeps. You can't really do much with that, can you?

Nope.