Over at kos Delaware Dem put up a very well read diary (850 comments and counting) that closed:
That I wasted whole decades of my life defending them (the Clintons) is a something I will never be able to live down, or forgive.
I agree.
But isn’t it interesting that Republicans like Dave Burris and Mike Castle don’t have similar thoughts regarding George Bush? In George Bush we have a man who did much more to undermine America than Bill Clinton ever did with his blowjob, or Hillary Clinton with her negative primary campaign. And yet, there is no regret exoressed by Michael Castle. There is no sorrow. There is no acceptance of reality. There is only denial, upon denial upon denial.
Why is that?
I think at the heart of the difference is that to be a Democrat means to be thoughtful and to reflect on your strongly held beliefs from time to time. A Democrat needs to hold his passions and prejudices up to the harsh light of reality and ask tough questions about objective truth on occasion.
While to be Republican means never having to say you are sorry, because to be a Republican means never having to give objective truth much thought. In a way it makes me feel sad for Mike Castle. This unlived part of life makes him a half-man in a way. He is a man who has never left his home town for a wider world of adult experience.
He, like so many Republicans, is like a boy who lives forever on the edge of adulthood. Living out an ersatz pantomime of adulthood without ever touching the full majesty and mystery of being wrong about something, and confronting it.
Sad.