This blog was an answer to Scripps How-
ard columnist Bonnie Erbe's article in th
Star Banner newspaper 0n 4/4/'08. We
obtained permission to reprint it from
the author.

NEOCON DRIVEL

It was troubling getting through Bonnie
Erbe's column "Which One Should Drop
Out?" (April 4) when she used Mike Bar-
rone as an oracle to dispense wisdom not
usually found in mere mortals.

Ms. Erbe describes Mike's analysis of the
current Democratic presidential contest
as "sophisticated". If Barrone made a
"sophisticated analysis" of this or any
other subject it will touch a new
experience for him.

Through Barrone, Bonnie resorts to a
well rehearsed diversion among neocons:
statistical distortions to match their
points of view- a perrenial staple of neo-
con jive. Not many readers pay much
attention to it anymore, so it's more than
somewhat suprising Bonnie swallowed
Barrone's blabber.

It has come to pass that almost everyone
is aware that all members of the neocon
ilk are rarely correct in their assumptions,
prognosticatons or purported reasoning.

Their isn't much "sophisticated analysis"
in the balance of Bonnie's treatise, but it
may help in future discerning if she is
given a fact she can take to the bank: The
Democrats will vote for Hilary or Barack
and swamp the Republicans in the fall.
Ergo, do not waste pen, ink thought or
time trying to help John McCain and his
lobbyist quarterbacks.

The outstanding justificaton for that
certainty is the fact that McCain is deep
into his dotage stage and the longer he
stumbles and bumbles along the more
people will see it. My God! Doesn't the
simple fact that the silly old man is
being corrected and coached by a
blinkered schlemiel like Joe Lieberman
tell us what we need to know?