Helium Leaders

The following is from commenter Virginian at Donna Brazile Was Behind The Stripping of The FL/MI Delegations? - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime: "Brazile is a political lightweight that is often given positions and podiums that are meant for heavy weights...many of the people that came into notoriety on Clintons '92 coat-tails fall into the same group,

But Brazile specifically makes for good TV...she is a political cannibal - and networks include her because of this...she was part of Karl Rove's conference call to get the political pulse each week when he served in the white house - she often will trash our candidates by repeating RNC talking points - she loves the spotlight and will do anything to keep it on herself, the sooner this is accepted by the party the sooner we can cut the string and bring in real leadership committed to real party building...

The problem is we have a lightweight for a party leader (I like Gov. Dean a lot, but he is a light weight), we have a light weight currently running a successful nomination campaign, and we have 100 lightweights pontificating about it online and in the media...when you put a down in the mud poke 'em in the eye person on TV like James Carville, all the lightweights scream that he is playing to rough (Judas comment)...I think we've lost our nerve for a fight, and have settled for folks like Gov. Dean, and accepted the spotlight lovers like Brazile...to our own detriment...we may win '08 but our majority status we're clinging too by a thread...we shouldn't forget that."

We cannot beat the GOP by being wimps. Period.