Like Butta. On Nails.- Barbra

Like Butta. On Nails.- Barbra Streisand's website, as Rachel Lucas points out, is a rich, reliable vein of material.

The current edition of her "Statements" page doesn't disappoint. There's this bon mot:

The Democratic Party was not able to articulate a clear message - was not able to convey the very real and very many differences between the two parties. They did not allow the American people to make a meaningful choice. They never articulated what it was we were voting for, and in doing so they failed to motivate their base to go to the polls.

On the face of it, this seems a reasonable take on it.

Except that the Dems - with Ms. Streisand acting as one of their de facto leaders, in the absence of most of the party's elected officials from the campaign trail - did articulate a message. "America last. Unions before security. Prosperity through taxation. Bush is illegitimate. Josh Bartlett is the real president".

The Dems, especially Streisand, were strident ("Streident"?) enough to get their message to everyone that would hear. And we see the results - and also see Babs spinning like a Huey Cobra.

The Republicans, on the other hand, spoke directly to their constituency and gave them a reason to vote.

We spoke to more than our constituency. Here in Minnesota - traditionally as lefty as Berkeley - 80 percent of uncommitted voters in the Twin Cities metro (outside the core cities) voted Republican! These were the voters that put Jesse Ventura in office in 1998 - and whose parents kept Hubert Humphrey and Karl Rolvaag and Fritz Mondale in office for decades.

Ipso Babso.

Posted by Mitch at November 16, 2002 12:01 PM