The ‘Screw Them’ Party
Charles Johnson
Tue Jun 27, 2006 at 4:21 pm PDT • Views: 207
Forbes Magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard thinks people should remember exactly how radical and mean-spirited the party of Daily Kos really is: The ‘Screw Them’ Party.
Playing to his online audience of post-McGovernite neo-commies, Kos enjoys picking fights with Democratic centrists who have the temerity to put America’s security as a top priority.
Among those Democrats is Will Marshall, founder of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. Marshall wants Dems to reclaim their Truman-J.F.K. heritage in foreign policy. He calls the Kos crowd “aging boomers out to relive the radical days of their youth.”
Marshall is right. The radicalism of the Kos crowd is real. And rooted in serious hate. On April 1, 2004, Kos wrote this about the brutal slayings of four U.S. citizens in Fallujah: “I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries … They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.”
Remember that quote next time you read a puff piece on Kos. “Screw them.”
Democrats will never win as a “screw them” party. …
It would be one thing if the Kos crowd made its arguments from a Gandhi-esque moral high ground. But they don’t. Callousness and moonbat conspiracy mongering animates their foreign policy ideas. Jealousy rules in economics. Revenge will be the order of the day if these haters actually win. But I don’t think the Kos crowd will win. “Screw them” doesn’t sell in America. Never has. Never will.
Previously at LGF:
Kos: Proud of ‘Screw Them’.
Frank says: