Politics: another Rosenberg endorsement

Matt Yglesias has a much more comforting endorsement of Simon Rosenberg:

Simon's an impressive guy, personally, and I definitely get the sense that he gets it. But what does he "get?" He gets that the party needs a third way between the faction that says "everything's fine, we just need better ads" and the faction that says, "the sky is falling and we must surrender massively on all fronts." He gets, in other words, the right kind of shakeup for today's Democrats. Something aimed at breaking the stranglehold on progressive politics held by a smallish number of aging baby boomers who, despite many virtues, have basically been failing for decades. He gets that we need to build a real political party, and not just a collection of various groups that barely speak to one another and are basically unable to articulate a message -- an ideology -- that draws different progressive together into a communicable worldview. He gets that Democrats can't just live off the fumes of past successes or simply try to co-opt the ideas of the other side.

We'll see. I tend to trust Yglesias, and his criticisms of Dean's run are pointed and smart.

I guess I can at least take comfort knowing that the DNC chair, in all actuality, is a pretty damn unimportant job, and as many point out, Dean might be much more effective in the Senate in 2006.