Along with many other Americans, I felt for a long time that this November’s election was the Democrats to lose. The Republicans were busy shooting themselves in the foot every chance they had and George Bush’s approval rating was somewhere in the 20’s. Then the Democrats went to work on themselves and the feeding frenzy began….and continues.
The Republicans have their nominee, Mr. Lackluster himself, Senator McCain, a nice enough guy with a terrible temper and marginal presidential qualifications. Unfortunately, Mr. McCain will be inaugurated as President next January. Why? Because Obama and Hillary just don’t seem to realize that there is something called videotape and every attack they level on each other is being recorded so it can be used by the GOP during the campaign. Why can’t the two of them just "shut up" and devote their energies to touting their own qualifications for President without insinuating their opponent is not qualified? Why? Because they want the nomination so badly that they are willing to destroy the Democratic Party to get it. Their egos are getting in the way of their party loyalty and their good sense.
What amazes me is the failure of the Party leadership to exert any control over either of these two Senators. Why doesn’t someone with some influence over them remind them that one of them will get the nomination, but the nominee will then lose the election in November because the wreckage they are leaving behind will be impossible to clean up.
And, now that Hillary has won Pennsylvania and is still in the race, this agonizing primary campaign, this party suicide, will continue for another couple of months until North Carolina and Indiana vote. As one Op-Ed contributor to the Washington Post labeled them, the "Donner Party" Democrats will just keep on destroying each other. And Mr. McCain can just sit back and say "go to the videotape."