I get email from all the ex presidential candidates and the wannabee, but that is the opposite to a coherent program, opposite to being a good leader: you have to follow, you have to strengthen the core, and then seek to be the point person.
We lost on Alito. 58-42: if those numbers were firm, then a filibuster would have done it and held. But there was Byrd, the senator, abandoning his seat for fear of punishment, for fear of $ that would not flow to his state, mostly military and energy $, but there you are. And his people are dying in the mines: I doubt they clung to the end to being the conservatives he said they were.
Ah yes, and then there was Lieberman.
Clark, Edwards, Kerry, emails from the all, and not one to the other or carrying any imprimateur of the DNC or Howard Dean who one again seteth a table for them before their enemies and they care not. These three men, of varying talents from none (Kerry) to much (Edwards) and military thought but lacking in balls (Clark)in the middle, they scatter their seed, and ours too: taking our money, burnishing off the sharp edge to dullness and then poking at the opposition with no more than a stubby finger.
Ah, oh, the money? they have NO idea who is sending it or why: not one of them accepts as input WHY a person is contributing: votes indeed. Screw the vote, just give me the money.
It is the perfect formula for Hilary. Ah, but how might Spiter, who will be governor of New York, how will he view Schumer and Hilary? And again: the absence of the DNC, the absence of Dean, who provides more to the party than all of them together (excepting Spitzer who has bagged some big game)