"A Pyrrhic victory: A victory gained at too great a cost"

[dumpster_baby]

you know things are pretty bad when the Democratic loyalists are cheering on a democratic VP candidate who sounded far more like a rightwinger than a leftwinger.

Yeah, we may win all these debates, but at what cost? You know, the things our candidates say do not just melt away into the air. They stay in people's minds. By having the Democratic ticket go up there in front of all of America and reinforce almost every bit of neoliberal propaganda that the rightwing propaganda machine (think tanks, foundations, rightwing talk radio, etc) has been cranking out for 30 years about how low taxes are better than high taxes, and how we need to build up our military ever bigger and stronger, well, we may have won the battles of the Prez and VP debates, but we lost the goddamn war.

Congratulations, John Kerry and John Edwards, you won the debates. But you stuck a knife between the ribs of the progressive ethos by doing it the way you did. Last night, Edwards was beautiful. A debating machine, incarnate. And also the most articulate spokesman for the neoliberal propaganda machine that I have ever seen.