Yepsen on extremism and 2008
Though I'm sure he scores no points with his employers with it, David Yepsen of our local Leftist rag, the Des Moines Register, has an interesting column today on Ned Lamont, liberal extremism, the foiling of the lastest terrorist plot, and 2008.
He needs to be corrected on a couple of historical matters, though. In 1968, anti-war Democrats (and I know, because I was one of them) did not oppose Hubert Humphrey because he was Lyndon Johnson's vice-president. We opposed him because his position on the war (and the bombing halt in particular) were the same as Johnson's. And nearly all of us ended up voting for Humphrey when, in a major speech during the last week of the campaign, he finally endorsed the bombing halt.
Interesting, too, that Yepsen apparently sees Mitt Romney as the presumptive GOP nominee, probably because of his massive lead in organization here in Iowa.
HT: Real Clear Politics
He needs to be corrected on a couple of historical matters, though. In 1968, anti-war Democrats (and I know, because I was one of them) did not oppose Hubert Humphrey because he was Lyndon Johnson's vice-president. We opposed him because his position on the war (and the bombing halt in particular) were the same as Johnson's. And nearly all of us ended up voting for Humphrey when, in a major speech during the last week of the campaign, he finally endorsed the bombing halt.
Interesting, too, that Yepsen apparently sees Mitt Romney as the presumptive GOP nominee, probably because of his massive lead in organization here in Iowa.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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