I know it is annoying for me not to be joining in and rubbishing one Democratic candidate in favour of another, but I thought I would talk about politics.
You remember? How to beat the Republicans in November. Yeah, I guess it may be seen as a bit irrelevant and it sure is dirty work cleaning up the sidewalks but, you know, someone has to do it.
This work needs to start now. Only one important thing happened yesterday. No it wasn’t Clinton’s camp rejecting claims that she is running out of money or Obama supporters having a go at Firedoglake for raising the Rezko affair.
Mitt Romney pulled out of the GOP race, leaving the field clear for a focussed, concentrated GOP attack upon the Democrats for every day, every week and every month leading up to November . Not good if Democrats spend the same time trying to tear their party candidates down. In my weird book of presidential election strategy, this sure looks like bad political karma. So I hope some of you wiser birds on Dkos will try and squeeze a diary or two onto the Recommended List in the next few months that leaves Bush to his sad history, your great candidates to hoped for quieter debate and get deep down and dirty on the GOP and John McCain.
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