Will the DNC and other party insiders and notables throw the election in a fit of pique if one of their own is not the nominee?
What I mean to say is ...
Will the powerful in the party fail to give 100% of their support to a candidate who is not of their own making and therefore throw the election to Bush?
What happens if a DNC favorite son is not the nominee?
I wrote this in the comments of another diary and feel that it deserves repeating here:
The Bush Administration seems to have a lot of master political planners on their team. People who are able to see multiple outcomes of an action and who can plan accordingly.
Where are these planners on the Democratic party? Do they have a plan called "How We Can Win with Clark" and one called "How We Can Win with Dean" and one called "How We Can Win with Gephardt?"
Listening to Josh Marshall, Joe Klein and other liberal opinion makers this last week as they expressed the conventional wisdom of Democratic party insiders, it seems like the plan is:
We either win with our guy (Clark? Gephardt?) or we lose hard.
We have to escape this mentality. But how?