Pendragon_6
01-09-2006, 10:15 AM
By Barry Casselman
The Democratic Party today reminds me of the hunter who carefully laid a trap for a bear and when he came back the next day he forgot where he put it, stepped wrong and got caught in it, and then was himself eaten by the bear.
The game trophies of this year's midterm elections and the 2008 presidential elections, both now appearing to favor the Democrats, could end up in the jaws of Democratic defeat.
There is an invisible civil war in the Democratic Party now underway, and it is between those who are attempting to satisfy the defeatist and pacifist left base of the party and those who are attempting to prepare the party for successful elections in 2006 and 2008.
At the center of this has been party Chairman Howard Dean, now increasingly joined by the two other party spokesmen -- Senate Minority leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
In Full
Real Clear Politics (http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-1_7_06_BC.html)
The Democratic Party today reminds me of the hunter who carefully laid a trap for a bear and when he came back the next day he forgot where he put it, stepped wrong and got caught in it, and then was himself eaten by the bear.
The game trophies of this year's midterm elections and the 2008 presidential elections, both now appearing to favor the Democrats, could end up in the jaws of Democratic defeat.
There is an invisible civil war in the Democratic Party now underway, and it is between those who are attempting to satisfy the defeatist and pacifist left base of the party and those who are attempting to prepare the party for successful elections in 2006 and 2008.
At the center of this has been party Chairman Howard Dean, now increasingly joined by the two other party spokesmen -- Senate Minority leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
In Full
Real Clear Politics (http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-1_7_06_BC.html)