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[PATRICK]

advisers and tactics against our party is no preparation for taking on the GOP but only a multi-aid to their overall strategy against us. This also seals in blood a damaging sacrifice of support for her candidacy. this is not the sort of minor thing that "heals". There a some here who would neither work for or vote for her candidacy. This effects MANY union people and students, etc. who can never be reasoned with on DU. This is the great melting away she would tolerate in order to ruthlessly advance to November. This is not theoretical anymore in any sense. If this is what she NEEDS to win this also confirms the weakness of her campaign and a future inability to surmount the negatives and divisions.

GOP strategy is to use negatives and divisions. In this inappropriate case it only serves the ambitions of the GOP and weakens the Clinton campaign's final goal just to keep them in the "winning" game. Even a victory in November will have a weakened, sacrificed mandate starting from a cellar dug by the Clintons.

This is extremely wrong and ill-advised for the nation, the party and the Clintons themselves. When you do things wrong you worsen the crisis we are in and promise a continuity of all the Bush wrongs to boot.
the same judgment that led them to do this will make it very unlikely that they will begin to do the right thing until they have dominated the field into undemocratic submission. They COULD change and do the right thing. Hope springs eternal. The plumbing of the spring is manufactured though by the GOP.