Slime - I'm as sick

Slime - I'm as sick of excessive hyperbole as the next guy. I think American society, especially our political culture, need a lot less of it.

I say that to qualify my next statement.

The DFL oozes slime.

Yeah, that is hyperbolic. But I urge any open-minded person to read the current edition of the MN DFL website and not feel the same - and to tell me why.

In this piece, they try to take the "moral high ground" on the Lott controversy...by quoting Bill Clinton.

NEW YORK (CNN) --Former President Clinton said Wednesday it is "pretty hypocritical" of Republicans to criticize incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for stating publicly what he said the GOP does "on the back roads every day."

"How do they think they got a majority in the South anyway?" Clinton told CNN outside a business luncheon he was attending. "I think what they are really upset about is that he made public their strategy."

By the way - the DFL might like to hire a competent webmaster. Count the number of HTML and copy errors on the DFL website, if you need to kill some time this holiday weekend.

Update: Glenn Reynolds has this suggestion for helping the GOP leave the segregationist parts of its past in the dust.

UPDATE: I've wondered for the past week if the Lott incident couldn't actually be a good thing for the GOP?

Daniel Drezner agrees.