Rebuttal To Paul Krugman:

Blood & Gore

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Leesburg, VA, October 15, 2007 (LPAC)--"Robby," otherwise better known to most of you as the New York Times' Paul Krugman, should have known better. Honest Republicans and Democrats are placental mammals; Al "Possum" Gore, Joe Lieberman, and George H. Bush, Jr., like Governor Schwarzenegger, are marsupials, at least in their pouches. The confusion over this matter of political biology is understandable; it took President Bill Clinton about seven years to discover that Gore was not actually a member of Clinton's own political species. The point, which Robby needs urgently to learn, is that it really made very little difference whether the Gore-Lieberman ticket did, or did not win election over Bush-Gore. GW and Gore may be of different species, but they are both, politically speaking, marsupials.

If you know our "Robby," his mistake is pretty clear; despite his wild-eyed splash, "Gore Derangement Syndrome," in today's New York Times, Paul can often be sensible when he is sticking to the subject of U.S. domestic economic policy. Not when it comes to essential issues of political biology.

Poor Paul. The two opening paragraphs of his piece in today's Times might have made you think he was about to say something sane. He writes: "What is it about Mr. Gore that drives right-wingers insane?" From that point on, Paul explodes in a continuing screaming fit, shrieking something which sounds like Chicken Little flapping around the barnyard squawking, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling."

The point, which escapes poor Paul completely, is not whether Gore was a worse choice than GW, which is not a very significant issue. The issue is that neither Gore nor GW were, politically speaking, placentals, but marsupials. The marsupials, by reducing the campaign to Bush-Cheney vs. Gore-Lieberman, had eliminated all political placentals from the lead in the 2000 Presidential campaign. Gore and Bush may represent different species, but are both marsupials; either way, the outcome would have been approximately the same.

Paul closes with his whimpering adulation of Gore: "He's taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respectable ... than ever." Poor "Robby;" when it comes to science, he just can not get it right. Unfortunately, it spills over into very bad political judgment on many points.