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Forget the Democratic dream ticket, it looks like a nightmare
Wednesday, March 12th 2008, 4:00 AM
SAN FRANCISCO - Sometimes it seems the Dolans run Madison Square Garden better than the Democrats run their party. Start with Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who has already done the impossible in this primary campaign: make politicians in Florida look smarter than he is.
Dean and the rest of the party bosses are talking in earnest about "do-overs" in Florida and Michigan. The Democrats want to run the country and expected to run the country after two straight presidential elections they let George Bush and Dick Cheney and Karl Rove take from them like they were taking their lunch money. But they run their own primary system about as well as Hillary Clinton, the great problem solver, runs her own campaign.
Soon it won't be the outgoing President of the United States doing a clumsy tap dance in front of the White House - to go with seven years of tap-dancing inside - it will be John McCain.
For the time being, and for the foreseeable future, McCain gets a free pass as he doesn't just stand side-by-side with Bush, but begins his own run to the White House on the policies of the worst President of my lifetime, and yours.
Less than two years ago, after midterm elections that effectively put Bush's second term on the scrap heap of political history where it belongs, after the mandate they were going to use to change history, the Democrats are still arguing about their own process. This may all not be worth a thimbleful of spit in the end if the superdelegates decide the thing in Denver, at a convention Don Imus was saying the other day might end up making Chicago in '68 look like a Cub Scout meeting.
But between now and then, McCain can act as if he has taken the high ground by running on Bush's war in Iraq, running on economic policies that have record numbers of people in this country swallowed whole by their own mortgages and walking away from their own homes.
The Democrats should be running hard against all of that. You shouldn't be able to lose running against that.
Instead the campaign degenerates -
and this is more Clinton's doing than Obama's, with a strategy that late in the game she seems to have ripped off from "There Will Be Blood" - into a debate about things that have nothing to do with actually getting the country back from Bush and Cheney. While it happens, the leaders of the Democratic Party seem to run in circles. They may have to go running back to Michigan and Florida, and you know how great things always work out for the Democrats when they let Florida decide.
'We're into the silly season," Barack Obama said at the last debate. It is all of that now, and that includes the media, which changes its coverage every couple of weeks and wildly overreacts when accused of something like going too easy on Obama. Perfect. Let "Saturday Night Live" set the debate now.
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I do think that the Democrats are chasing their tail around in circles with all this nonsense.
-Hillary should bow out
-MI and FL should sit down and in the next election vote out the State Leaders that moved the Primaries up.
