Today’s “Considerett…

Today’s “Considerettes Radio” entry is from my call with the Northern Alliance Radio guys substituting for Hugh Hewitt. Peter Beinart of The New Republic has written a couple of articles recently for the magazine (“A Fighting Faith” and “The Good Fight”, free registration required to read) that have created a bit of disturbance on the left (even from folks at his own mag, see the article “Purpose Driven” by John B. Judis–wonder if this Christian-like terminology (even borrowing from Rick Warren’s book title) is their way of trying to connect to “moral values” voters).

Peter used to strenuously defend the left’s take on everything with no apology when on Hugh’s show (sometimes beyond the point of reason). But last week with Hugh and (not as much) this week with the Norther Alliance, he’s been slightly more contrite in his defense of what the Democratic Party has been doing, not just during the recent election cycle but for the past 40 years, especially with regard to prosecuting terrorism. So after his segment on the show, I asked where was this admission of extremism on the part of Michael Moore and MoveOn 2, 3, 4 or 12 months ago? Was this some sort of new revelation to Beinart?

I suspect that the reason was that it didn’t make political sense to him to reveal his misgivings and reflections until after his guy’s run at the White House, because perhaps some folks would actually think about these real issues with liberals. And they surely couldn’t have that happen. It appears that the election was more important than being honest about the party, and I suspect that these articles would never have been written if Kerry had won. As one of the Northern Alliance guys noted, it seemed like they were just pretending to be tough on terror long enough to hopefully take the presidency. Honesty took a back seat to expediency.

“Considerettes Radio” on The Hugh Hewitt Show (WGKA, Atlanta, GA) 12/9/2004 6:20pm EST (270K)

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