But we have no choice!
He makes a great point, but the landscape has been so skewed by years of conservative media insidiousness, I fear we have no choice but play down to their level:
Democrats have been losing because we're unable to stick a scandal, but we've also been failing because we've lost sight of our strengths. Somewhere along the way, we looked at the Lewinsky scandal, thought "we should do that", and never looked back save to criticize those who weren't keeping up.One more thing, he says:
We're not going to win by copying the Republican playbook. In football, you spend the week before a game learning the other team's plays. But you don't run them. You learn how to defend against them, and you run the plays you're good at.
But the almighty New England Patriots don't do only that. Sir Bill Belichick has made a legacy of changing what they're good at from game to game based on opponents' weaknesses. At this time, the right is very weak and exposable on the issue of values and hypocricy because they've been so cavalier about not hiding it, as they are shameless egomonkeys.
(Via Yglesias)
