Quick Notes #1
April 3rd, 2007
Something that I figured I would start doing: blogging quick thoughts that don’t get into full blog-post form, but I’d like to shoot out anyway. Sometimes there’s stuff that doesn’t need elaboration, or I just don’t feel like going in-depth about it (which I usually feel is necessary to qualify as having officially blogged for the day). Kind of like the equivalent of post-it notes in blog form. So here goes.
Ironic. After all those years of methodically trying to destroy the “liberal” and “Democrat” brand names so that anyone would be embarrassed to call themselves by those names, Republicans have succeeded in destroying their own name appeal in far less time. In the past six years of full Republican control, fewer people than in the past 20 years [PDF] want to call themselves a “Republican,” while more people than ever want to call themselves “Democrats.”
It’s the old “whiplash effect”