I capitalized all the words in my title because it is, of course, a play on the title of the well-known British stage farce, No Sex, Please--We're British.
But by "Democrats" I intend both the capital-D and the small-D senses of the word. The United States, you see, still functions, at least electorally, as a democracy. And both as democrats and as Democrats--and, I don't doubt, even as Republicans, and certainly as independents--we voters don't like being told in advance that so-and-so's candidacy is "inevitable." We especially don't like it when the soothsayers are wrong. As they inevitably--well, as they almost inevitably--are!
For more than a year, the mainstream media told us that one Democratic presidential contender was an invincible, unstoppable, force of political nature, a juggernaut, a prohibitive favorite, and all the rest of it. That candidate came in third in the Iowa caucuses.
Then, for five days, the same good old reliable mainstream media told us that another candidate--the first-place finisher in Iowa--was the new juggernaut, the new prohibitive favorite, an unstoppable train, and so on (and on), while the former irresistible juggernaut was now dead. The "train" ran into a wall in New Hampshire--stopped by, of all people, the "dead" candidate. It's almost enough to make one believe in the Resurrection--that is, it might be if one were foolish enough ever to believe anything the MSM said in the first place.
It's very irritating to us voters to be told by the MSM that everything is all decided and all settled before anybody has even voted--or when one small state has caucused and a second has held a primary, with 48 sets of caucuses and primaries (many of then in much larger states) still to come. It's equally irritating to be told the same thing by the pundits of Left or Right Blogistan, whose records as prognosticators, generally speaking, do not brightly outshine those of the MSM. It's untimely, at this stage, to declare any candidate "dead," and it's both premature and insulting to post diaries advising supporters of one candidate to get on some other candidate's "train"--those damned, "inevitable," "unstoppable," "juggernaut" trains that do seem to keep jumping the rails on their way to Inevitableville.
Let's let the voters vote, shall we? Let's give the voters in every state time to take a good look at all the candidates and make up their own minds before we go gunslinging with preposterous prognostications propped up by wishful thinking and not much else.
In the end, neither the MSM nor the blogosphere get to decide this election. The voters do. The voters have already surprised "us" twice this year, and that's just on the Democratic side. We need to wait until a lot more states have voted before we declare anybody dead.