Harold Meyerson, editor at large of The American Prospect and columnist for the Washington Post, has won the prize (to be determined) for offering the Democrats both the best excuse and the recommendation for the most transparently insincere conversion of the week in his column today.
Best Excuse
Kerry’s plan for Iraq never sounded very plausible, but that’s chiefly because the administration has made such a hash of the war that there are no good alternative policies.
Carvillian Born-Again Recommendation
After noting that the party succeeds only with Southern candidates:
“Paris is worth a Mass,” Henry of Navarre is reputed to have said when he converted to Catholicism in order to assume the throne of France. The White House, Democrats may similarly conclude, is worth a drawl.
Robert M. Hutchins, who became dean of the Yale Law School at 29 (and president of the University of Chicago not long after), once famously defined a law school as an institution that took three years to teach young men to makes sounds like a lawyer. If the Dems’ only hope is to draft a candidate who can make sounds like a Southerner, they indeed do have a long row (or is that Roe?) to hoe.
