http://rogerlsimon.com/archives/00000606.htm 01/14/2004: The Wrong Men for the Internet At the present moment, the Democratic Party seems to be headed over a cliff at ninety miles an hour. With Bush already sitting on extremely high poll numbers and the domestic and foreign situations breaking his way, the Democrats have two of their worst candidates in recent memory in the frontrunner positions.Howard Dean and Wesley Clark. They are particularly bad in the Internet Age. What, you say, Howard Dean is bad on the Internet? He was and is the master of online fundraising and the first to recognize the power of blogs. Yes, indeed! But that.s only part of the story. And it.s not the more important part. The Internet is the greatest memory device we have ever had. It stores virtually everything for instant access -- it.s very difficult to hide what you have said. Bloggers and others will dig it out and force the media to publicize it. This is exceptionally dangerous for Dean who has defined himself and staked his nomination on being the Most Antiwar Candidate, when, among other things, quite a short time ago he was not. Today we see via Instapundit that Dean wrote a letter to Clinton advocating Milosevic be forcibly removed for humanitarian reasons, something he appears to have rejected for Saddam, even though the Iraqi leader was vastly more awful. Dean even advocated, in the case of Milosevic, going it alone without the United Nations. Normal political hypocrisy? Well, sure. But it is worse. Because this is Mr. Tell-It-Like It-Is and he isn.t. And he can.t. There.s too much information already on record. The Internet will be his great undoing. This is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Wait until summer. The same is true for Clark. In a sea of a million fact-checkers, his idiot vacillations seem all the more ridiculous. If he gets nominated, it is going to be a donnybrook. .... _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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