This never-ending boxing match between Clinton and Obama - now doomed to continue all the way to the DNC Convention after Clinton's Pennsylvania win last night - is the absolute worst-case nightmare scenario for the Democrats and an early Christmas gift for the Republicans.
With this victory Clinton seems to have succeeded in punching a hole in Obama's campaign, destroying his momentum, and infecting Democrats and independents with doubts about his message and his ability to win the general election in November. This wouldn't be so bad (it's what politicians are supposed to do to each other in a campaign), except that in the process of damaging the front-running Democratic candidate she drove her own negatives even higher than they were before, and she still doesn't have any clear path to get the nomination for herself. All that's resulted is a loss of the moderate center and a surge for the Republicans.
And where the hell is Howard Dean, or Al Gore, or somebody who could have stepped in and brokered some kind of compromise before the damage was done?
I am so fed up with the Democratic party right now I want to just surrender in disgust and shout 'a pox on both your houses'... The Clinton and Obama campaigns are successfully engineering a win for the Republicans in a year where the Republicans should have had no chance at all. If we can't win after eight years of the worst president in history, a disastrous war with no end in sight and an imploding economy shattered by mismanagement, I think I'm going to just give up hope completely. Seriously, I'm stunned at how, when faced with a no-lose situation, the Democrats are somehow managing to invent a way to lose this election.
I'm done. I'm going to move back to Denmark and vote Social Democratic. Oh wait, they don't let me vote in Denmark.
Posted by case at April 23, 2008 10:39 AMcouldn't agree more… this mess is just stunningly, utterly demoralizing. beginning of the end, mayhap?
Posted by: jeremy at April 24, 2008 02:11 AM