Bipartisan bunk

Posted 43 weeks 3 days ago by Ben

There have been some early misconceptions about what RedBlueAmerica is all about. We've been tagged as middle of the road, absolutely unbiased, rigidly bipartisan and so forth. I'll have more to say about those errors later, but the short answer to all of them is: Nope. Not so. Wrong. And no. If anyone doubts it, take two minutes to browse the Blog page.

I also recommend reading Jonah Goldberg's column in the New York Post today. Goldberg makes a point about the row between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that I think applies perfectly to what we're trying -- or, rather, not trying -- to do here...

Obama's fairy tale is the idea that we can get beyond disagreement. But Democracy is about disagreement, not agreement. We have real arguments in this country, and the political arena exists for us to hash them out peacefully. Obama's -- and Mayor Bloomberg's and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's -- "post-partisan" snake-oil promises to take the disagreement out of democracy. You can't do that.

In a nutshell, RedBlueAmerica.com exists to provide a forum where we can disagree without malice.