The Politics of War

Max Cleland has rolled himself to Crawford for the purpose of delivering a note to the President calling on him to denounce the Swift Boat Ads.



While this may appear to be a "bold" and "important" step by the far left who have no concept of how a democratic system works, it's clearly just more of the horse and pony show that the Democrats have been parading in front of us for the past couple of months. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to know that any one of the senators who signed the petition could have delivered it to President Bush at any number of meetings he holds with them. There are plenty of sensible routes this could have taken. Cleland could have even tried to get Congress on his side and actually have done something about the 527 groups. Instead, he choose a politically irrelevant faux-populist approach that is sure to wow those who already love Kerry and do nothing for those who don't. I might start to buy the line if he rolls up to Kerry's mansion with a letter demanding that his candidate condemn the MoveOn types and their absurd claims.