By Rebecca Schoenkopf
So Jimmy Carter, appearing at UC Irvine’s Bren Events Center this morning, wasn’t so much a Fighting Dem as he was a swords-into-plowsharing Dem, but we don’t have a category for that on this here blog. What we do have–what I have, and what our editor Will Swaim has, and what I’ll assume [...]

By Rebecca Schoenkopf
While we will usually stick to actual Dem politicos past and present for Fighting Dems, Alec Baldwin is a Dem, and he is fighty.
And now, just because he called his 11-or-12-year-old daughter (he isn’t sure which either) a rude, thoughtless little pig, he has to make a pilgrimage to Dr. Phil. Sweet Jesus, [...]

By Rebecca Schoenkopf
George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic nominee, has a lulu of an op-ed in today’s LA Times. (We suppose they can’t run Phyllis Schlafly every day.)
Let’s go to the tape:
Dick Cheney grumbles about “defeatist” Democrats wanting out of Iraq and sneers becomingly that Dems are being all McGoverny. (The Minnesota  South Dakota Dem’s 1972 [...]