'We'll be greeted by flowers'... Dick Cheney.
Check this out: Ignore the Hillary hit, the key graph is far more important.
...No matter how hard she works, does anyone think she'll convince Mitch McConnell to create a new welfare state program? Doesn't she remember Bill Kristol's memo calling for all out opposition?
Scorched-earth warfare guaranteed from the right.
That's what's waiting for the Dem nominee.
We don't need to to change the leadership of polarized Washington, for which Hillary is no doubt the best suited of the Democratic candidates. We need to end polarization, and that requires a Democratic landslide that only Obama might achieve. So let's roll the dice.
Let's roll the dice? Let's roll the dice? In one of the most crucial elections ever, Dems 'roll the dice'? Show me a plan, please, preferably a battle-plan. Don't tell me Republicans and Dems are going to join hands to sing happy songs. The acrimony of the last week here, sadly, is a snap-shot of the reality any Dem nominee will inhabit. Republicans and their media allies will fault find no matter who wins the nomination.
Hope is not a plan. Am I the only here who remembers how that little nugget got burned into our brain-pans? How about 'open partisan warfare'? You know, the kind Republicans have been waging for decades? Because a fusillade of abuse and obstruction is the only thing waiting for Dems in 2008, both in Congress and from the pages of the NYT, as our candid Obama supporter admits.
There are three excellent candidates, at least, running for the nomination. Three, not two, and each has attributes and flaws. Whoever you choose, please do not put any faith in any Republican or any Republican 'cross-over voter' to help the Dem cause.
If McCain gets the nod, the media are going to swoon and Dems are going to have fight the 'weak on terrorism' meme all over again.
Dems must be prepared to fight for every single inch of ground, because that's what Republicans will be doing. When McCain calls Republican voters home to rebuild their party, does anyone really think Repubs are going to stick around to elect a Dem?
America is going to rally around the candidate, and the President in January, 2009, for about as long as it takes the flash-bulbs to pop. Then: game on. Dems better be ready, because the last thing Republicans are going to do is take any responsibility for the mess they made.
Anyone want a marsh-mellow?