The "intelligent" wing of our party

"It's an innovative concept.  An intelligent conversation with the American people.  Imagine that."

This is how Digby today exhorted her readers to tune into Geek Out Live with Rush Holt, who is one of the candidates running against Cory Booker to be the Democratic nominee for the Senate from New Jersey (and in all likelihood, the next Senator from New Jersey).  Digby also said the race wasn't over and asked her readers to donate to Mr. Holt's campaign.

To put it succinctly, Digby is full of shit.

I'm no fan of Cory Booker, and would really rather see Mr. Holt in the Senate.  But the plain truth of the matter is that this election is a few weeks away, Cory Booker has a ton of money in the bank, and he leads Holt, as of July 14th, 52.5% to 8.8%.  This race is not fucking winnable.  If one wishes to listen to a good progressive have an intelligent conversation about the state of America, by all means do so.  Anything further than that is about as foolish as Tea Party dolts who nominate deep red candidates to run in deep blue states' Senate races.

I don't mean to be an ass, but my guess would be that there are a lot of Liberals who a) have family obligations, b) have full-time jobs, and c) don't have a lot of disposable income.  Anyone asking them to waste their valuable time and resources on a quixotic quest for another in a long line of demoralizing losses might as well be asking them to spend their time watching "The Price Is Right" and flushing ten dollar bills down the toilet.  It would do equally as much good.

How much better to invite them to particpate in races where their efforts and money can actually make a diffrerence, rather than propping up one's intellectual bona fides (the opening quote says it all) at the expense of the betterment of the American people.

Peace,
emaycee