tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592841981416728347.post5254518400138545444..comments2023-05-25T03:08:18.166-06:00Comments on Montana Headlines: Left overturesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592841981416728347.post-51923113347129058752007-03-19T20:18:00.000-06:002007-03-19T20:18:00.000-06:00P.S. For some reason, I have been unable to post ...P.S. For some reason, I have been unable to post comments on some sites, including yours. I'm not meaning to seem rude by not doing so.Montana Headlineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16149094528547382638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592841981416728347.post-71089491582246622182007-03-19T20:16:00.000-06:002007-03-19T20:16:00.000-06:00It was meant as a compliment -- but I hope I didn'...It was meant as a compliment -- but I hope I didn't ruin your reputation in the process. You strike a nice balance between hard-hitting and fair, and you keep the shrillness levels down. All things I admire.<BR/><BR/>My own point was perhaps more Cro-Magnon than you give it credit for. <BR/><BR/>I intended to convey simply that the PDM is engaged in a real attempt to shift policy leftwards. You will understand that around here, this is generally considered to be a bad thing. <BR/><BR/>Juvenile bad taste, on the other hand, has no political affiliation, and I have received the fliers, the direct mail fund-raising solicitations (our catholic tastes get us on both kinds of mailing lists), and the campaign phone calls to prove it.<BR/><BR/>This recent spate of fliers added insult to injury by hurting the party that distributed them. If you're going to be low enough to sucker-punch someone, at least make sure that it drops the guy.<BR/><BR/>How quickly it will be forgotten depends on the political micro-climates of the districts in question.Montana Headlineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16149094528547382638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7592841981416728347.post-47098422202520954842007-03-19T11:55:00.000-06:002007-03-19T11:55:00.000-06:00I think I'm flattered being your favorite lefty bl...I think I'm flattered being your favorite lefty blogger!?!<BR/><BR/>You may be right that the formation of a group trying to take the MT Dems back to 1980s-era progressive politics may be more harmful to the left than the mailer is to the right -- but my point was that, at least the PDM are trying to create a positive movement towards their values, thinking, perhaps naively, that the time is right and Montanans are natually inclined towards their views. <BR/><BR/>(I happen to agree, BTW, but I think they're packaging it all wrong...)<BR/><BR/>Whereas the mailer was just back-alley politics in an off-election year, some politically cro-magnon mind sowing revulsion, a characteristic of a worldview that concentrates on the worst of human nature. It will be quickly forgotten, I'm sure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com