My Unheralded Battle against Ahistoricality
William Jennings Bryan? Wow. He was, like, 3 or 4 poltical alignments ago. In the meantime, names of high profile Democrats who’ve floated onto the national stage include everyone from Benjamin Tillman to Paul Wellstone to Harry Byrd to Shirley Chisholm to Champ Clark to John Davis to Strom Thurmond to Alton Parker to Richard Daley to Gary Hart to Henry Wallace to George Wallace.
I guess the reference was hyperbole, but it’s a weird one nonetheless.
Maybe you won’t really get a whole mass of wisdom from political magazine blog comments, but this comment bothered me:
Of course Franken “won” the seat since the state of Minnesota is run by Dems. It was a foregone conclusion. The GOP has stolen a lot of votes in its history, but it’s small potatoes compared to the Dems record. The last honest Dem was William Jennings Bryan and he’s been out of the picture for a century or so. You couldn’t point to an honest Dem in high public office right now if your life depended on it.
BTW the Minnesota Sec of State and his cronies apparently already have the 2010 election results in hand, are drafting those for 2012, and are giddily anticipating 2014. RIP, Democracy, RIP.