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This is completely and totally nuts.  Put him and Howard Dean in the same room and Dean comes out looking stable.  Begala made this comment a couple of years ago:

"I am actually pro-cursing. I think it’s good. I think we should teach kids to curse, so they don’t use drugs. It doesn’t rot your brain. It doesn’t get you pregnant. It doesn’t kill you, like tobacco."

Now, I’d like to know how he thinks teaching kids to curse would prevent them from using drugs, rotting their brain, getting pregnant, or choosing to smoke tobacco.  Got news for Begala, they can do all or none of the above.  Teaching your kids discipline, ie, not to swear, is part of the process of giving them the ability to say no to drugs, no to getting pregnant, and no to smoking tobacco.

That is an idea of where this guy is coming from.  Here’s his latest contribution to solving the problem of a "polarized nation":

"They want to kill me and my children if they can. But if they just kill me and not my children, they want my children to be comforted — that while they didn’t protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won’t have to pay any money on the money they inherit," Begala said. "That is bulls*** national defense, and we should say that."

Now, you may wonder why I’m picking on Paul Begala.  If you don’t know by now, he was a partner of James Carville, and was a critical part of Bill Clinton’s very successful 1992 campaign.  How is this relevant today?  It all depends on Hillary.  She is moving to the right as fast as she can, Howard Dean and her political co-horts of yesteryear are lurching farther and farther to the left.  If she is to win her own party’s nomination, she’s going to have to win the delegates, not the average voter.  With Dean and the Begala’s urging their party members farther to the left, Hillary’s gonna have some major internal issues to deal with if she continues trying to acheive the image of a moderate.  How the Democrats resolve this mess is beyond me and I don’t think they can in three years.  With their leaders pushing harder and harder to the left, look for a LOT more disenfranchised party members.  They may turn to Hillary in revolt, but revolts within major parties rarely go very far.  Even if they do push a moderate into the race, the party will be so split it can’t win.  In order for the Democrats to win in 2008, it’s going to have to return to a more moderate position.  With Dean, Pelosi, Begala, Kennedy, Feinstein, and Kerry leading the party, it has not chance in hell of acheiving anything remotely close to a moderate party.  If the Democrats lose positions in 2006, and get trounced in 2008, as I expect at this point due to internal problems, look for a total rebellion in 2009.  That is the only thing that will save their party.

Thanks to Briangerm of The Motley Fool for the pointer.

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