What if they threw a campaign and everyone came but they lost anyhow?

The following quote made me think back to Obama's campaign slogan, "We are the ones we've been waiting for." Maybe they were waiting for someone else all along:

"I'm starting to worry," Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, an adviser to John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, writes in The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper. "I believe Democrats are exquisitely positioned to win the White House in 2008. The only thing that could defeat us is us, and it feels like we just might."

The only thing that could defeat them is them. Precisely. If their message isn't appealing to voters, if they become embroiled in ugly argument, if they have no real policy differences, if the only attributes they can offer are their identities as "female" and "African-American" (separatism and division)to promote themselves, if they appear dishonest, if they can't adequately damn those who damn the "US of KKKA," they will defeat themselves.

And McCain, just by managing to avoid too many gaffs and stand out of the way, will win.

And perhaps he deserves to win.

Even the left has grown tired of Clinton and Obama:

And here I thought Hillary was the self-righteous scold. Obama lectures even when he's the one who's been called into the principal's office. Alter has presented the most compelling case for Al Gore I've read.

(And Gore is not a self-righteous scold?) 

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[oceanguy]

They defeated themselves in 2004... any moderate Democrat would have beat unpopular Bush by a landslide. They're doing the same thing now in nominating someone so far left... and they can't see it.