Democrats are tearing party down

[drfemoe]

http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6460

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 12:00 AM
The Daily Herald |
You might remember MAD -- the Cold War policy of Mutually Assured Destruction in which the United States and the Soviet Union each planned to obliterate the other in the event of a nuclear attack.

Well, among themselves, the Democratic presidential candidates have triggered their own version of mutually assured destruction.

If the economic gains being reported now prove to be a genuine start of recovery, it could put a big dent in the Democrats' 2004 campaign plans. But right now, they are facing another formidable danger.

For some weeks now, a visitor from Mars, observing his first election campaign, could be forgiven if he thought the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination were advance men for George Bush, so eagerly have they been tearing each other down.

Most of these forays into political fratricide have targeted discrepancies between past and present positions on a variety of issues, implying deviousness or inconstancy or both.

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♦ Walter Cronkite was anchor of "CBS Evening News" for 19 years. He can be reached at [e-mail].

[ThorsteinVeblen]

1. Fight Club!

The more pre-nomination violence the better. I am sick and tired of Democratic pussies who can't lead, have no vision and expect to get elected.

If you can't handle the heat, get the fuck out of the kitchen!

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Cronkite wrote this?

The Cronkite who's been a reporter and observor since FDR?

Democrats have ALWAYS been at each other's throats. It's been a national joke as long as I've been around. It's a little crankier this year, but nothing like the good ol' days with Dixiecrats fighting the good fight for Jim Crow and leftover Tammany types cutting secret deals to squeeze out Daly or Long with old man Kennedy getting a piece of the action.

OK, this year the candidates have been getting a little too cranky with each other in public, but I can't think of an election year in my short lifetime that Democratic internecine warfare wasn't prophesied to doom the party.

It always seems to come back, though.

[KG]

3. note that since there is no real GOP oppositition to the chimp

the spotlight will be totally on the dem party nomination process.