Media Frame: Repubs Coalesce, Dems in Disarray. [View All]

[dchill]

This is the spin, when it seems that McCain can't get the conservatives to get behind him (right now they hate him) and Huckabee refuses to go away quietly - apparently that is coalescence. This is the spin, while the Democratic party field has distilled to two well-liked candidates with fairly similar positions on the issues at hand and lots of money, with many primaries ahead in which to battle it out. Our biggest problem is with party leadership, not with our candidates. Whether or not to count Florida and Michigan delegates is an issue that was supposedly settled and agreed upon before the campaigns started, but is rearing its head again as voices cry out for delegates to be seated, or for some kind of re-do in the two states.

This is not a party that is irretrievably broken along cultural and philosophical lines. This is a party with real values and real ideals that needs to figure out its own rules, and pay attention to its own people. The only disarray is between and within the DLC and the DNC.