Is not amused.

Cognitive dissonance just doesn't exist anymore. We are beyond that point into just batshit crazy.

Looks like Mudcat is just telling it like it is and he is thinking ahead a bit.  At least he invited anyone to go and banter with him.  I hope the diarist will go post the same thing at Swampland that he did here.

With that said, I also think Joe Klein is a twit, but that's just my opinion.

I agree with his following comments, not sure about that 'go to hell' stuff though.

So to those bloggers who believe in a straight-forward dialogue and exchange of ideas, God bless you and thank you. Together, you're coming up with a lot of good stuff, and frankly, much of it has been helpful to me. At the same time, those Democratic bloggers, who have appointed themselves as intellectually superior and believe the only way to win an argument is to shot the loudest with personal attacks

the elitist wing of the Democratic Party, or what I refer to as the "Metropolitan Opera Wing". These are the people who talk of tolerance but the only true tolerance they ever exhibit is for their own pseudo-intellectual arrogance.

Start an exchange of ideas by telling people to go to hell. Attack the metropolitan, pseudo-intellectual wing of the Democratic Party by defending Joe Klein. Dismiss John Edwards's biggest area of activist support in the name of rural southern whites. Decry intolerance by stating "I don't care what the "Metropolitan Wing" of my party thinks."

It's part of the "Swampland" marketing plan. Tell people to fuck off and watch them drive your "hit" numbers up by inviting you to do the same.

Pretty fucking obvious and pretty fucking pathetic.

coming from a guy who's a key Edwards consultant, from what I understand (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).  Considering all the emphasis that Edwards has put on Netroots outreach, this seems rather unhelpful in that regard.

Weird.  

I agree with attacks on class privilege.  Sometimes he ain't polite.  Good for him.  

The Democrats can win by caving to Bush's demands when 70% of the people want timelines! Now I understand the thinking of Dem consultants.

I think the dirty little secret is that NO ONE really knows how to win races.  That's why a lot of them are unpredictable.  No, not talking about sixty percent districts one way or the other, but seats like Shea-Porter's.

CW would have said that, no matter the issues, that war vet of Emanuel's in Chicago should have won before Carol Shea-Porter (or even Hodes, for that matter).

I think it is more about the mood of the electorate and having a good/likeable candidate.  It's less about strategy than people like Saunders (I refuse to call him 'Mudcat') thinks.

Perhaps this explains HRC.  No one knows truly why she's so ahead.  If she tanked, people would have 100 reasons as to why.  But her staying power?  I have no fucking clue.  Maybe people just like familiarity in an uncertain world.  

IMO, ALL these 'consultants' are overrated.

Instead of a post looking for discussion on why Obama is stuck at 25 points, we get a BB suggesting deathbeds.

Sometimes the blogs are indefensible.

Hey! My first serious professional gig was playing in an opera pit. If you were to bet on a gang fight between symphony orchestra musicians and an opera pit you would be well advised to go with the musicians in the opera pit. They're mean and nasty. Collectively, they'll take on anyone.

I love this:

I've got all week to talk about how Republicans take the rural and southern vote for granted in national elections and how the Democrats, for some insane reason, let'em have it.

There are so many questions whose answers are revealed by just turning them inside out:

I've got all week to talk about how Democrats take the urban, liberal, secular and anti-war vote for granted in national elections and how the Republicans, for completely obvious reasons, let'em have it.

Man, I it's a work of art:

If you want a perfect example of how this "intolerance" is helping the Democrats lose national elections, check out the responses to Joe Klein's post on Paris and Libby.

Someone should ask Mudcat to explain why Harold Ford lost.

I bet he goes all Yosemite Sam on their ass.

INcidemtally,

Is Mudcat arguing that good old boy poulists in rural 'murica think elitist Washington insider, Scooter Libby got a raw deal?

I bet they think Paris Hilton got treated less fairly than Scooter.

If a political candidate is asking some hired gun political consultant what policies he or she should support or oppose -- then that person shoud not be running for office in the first place and doesn't deserve a single vote.

If Mudcat is a whiz at GOTV, or communications strategy such as how to tareget specific districts, or polling, etc. that's one thing.

But if he's telling his candidates what to say to get rurual muricans supporting them, despite what the candidate actually belives, then he's nothing but a con man/used car salesman.

I suspet what pisses off rural muricans and Southerners the most is being patrnized like that sshoe Mudcat. Pretending they are a seperate species of homo sapiens, or something, Rather than treating them like intelligent adults and being honest about how you feel.

And, how does Mudcat explain Rudy Giuliani's lead in South Carolina?

Maybe it is just because I am an irony-loving Gen X type . . . manage to do all of this in 600 words while maintaining a straight face.

was the funniest fucking thing I've read all day.  
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Well, Tristero actually has written an opera, Freud and Dora: A Case of Hysteria. So maybe he is the Metropolitan Opera Wing of the Democratic Party.

I'm sure Mudcat has me in mind.  But, for the record, I have NEVER been to the opera, metropolitan or otherwise. In fact, one could almost say I hate opera.  At least the European kind.  I like the Indian and the Chinese, which makes me worse than Metropolitan--I'm a furriner-loving rootless cosmopolitan, and damn proud of it, by cracky!

But, to be honest, I don't spend that much time listening to Asian opera.  I've spent a lot more time over the years listening to real rural music, be it from the Mississippi Delta, or the Appalachians--not that warmed-over, fourth-hand country-country rock (oh Byrds! oh Poco! oh Flying Burrito Brothers!  Look what you've done!) they peddle in Nashville.

And you know, really, I can't help but thinking that I'm not all that atypical.  Oh, sure, I was a whole lot more into roots music than my contemporaries back when I was in high school.  But most musicians were.  You didn't just listen to the Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones, you listened to the people that they listened to.  (Okay, so I was listening to some of them before I listened to the Rolling Stones, but you get the picture.)  And sooner or later that stuff just has to seep out and get all over everyone's carpet.  Linoleum, too.

Long story short: I think Mudcat's got him one helluva hangover inferiority complex.  If I was a Kentucky Democrat, like my brother, say, I'd be damned pissed at him for trying to speak for me, and selling me so short in the process.

Mudcat, shut the hell up. Being a redneck is not the solution to everything.