Reply #62: In Regard To That, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

At this point, the vitriol directed against Sen. Clinton and her supporters is probably as harmful to the prospects of Sen. Obama in the fall as anything directed at Sen. Obama and his supporters. The nominee is going to need the enthusiastic support of all who voted for Sen. Clinton in the primaries, and all who did more than that in support of her, if we are to have a victory in November.

Nor, unhappily, will the actual recognition of Sen. Obama as the Party's nominee put an end to attacks on him here. We have both been here a long time, Sir, and know what to expect. Only the direction of the attacks will change. By September, if not by August, people, a number of them likely to have been supporters of Sen. Obama in the primary season, will be denouncing him roundly as a pawn of the D.L.C., excoriating him for talk of bipartisanship and other concessions to the central portion of the national political spectrum, and crying that he has betrayed them, and the promise of Hope and Change he ran on to secure the nomination. Moderators will try and sort the constructive elements of this from the non-constructive ones, and no one will be particularly happy with where the line is drawn.