The Washington Post’s Colbert King makes a point very similar to the one I made yesterday with an added fillip:
Warning: If the Democratic left does to Obama in 2012 what it did to incumbent President Carter in 1980 via Ted Kennedy’s damaging Democratic presidential primary challenge – or what the Republican right did to incumbent President George H.W. Bush in 1992 with Pat Buchanan’s entry into the GOP primary – the Democratic party as a whole will find itself paying a steep price for years to come.
That’s a promise, not a threat.
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Make no mistake, however: If the left costs Obama his presidency in 2012, the Democratic Party as a whole will lose out.
Sabotage the nation’s first black president and the Democratic Party might as well bid farewell to its most loyal base of supporters: African Americans.
Sabotage the nation’s first black president and the Democratic Party might as well bid farewell to its most loyal base of supporters: African Americans.
Really. And what will they do once betrayed by the progressives — become Republicans?
This is a fantasy. The Democrats don’t happen to have another Teddy Kennedy. The best they’d be able to put out there is another Kucinich. Maybe the actual Kucinich.