Reply #117: Disturbing campaign trends

[PATRICK]

that look less like gaffes than bad judgment leaking out at spectacularly bad times, not set up but from his own gut reactions.

I know WE would like to rewire certain pols with better priorities, common sense and high road unity but if this is how it is we have to bluntly ask(in terms at least of brutal campaigning) which of their characteristics are fatal to electoral chances and which can be overcome.

You can write off various weakness various ways and should not expect inhuman pure progressives with godlike charisma for winning, but I think we here will be less surprised how the people will get this in the ACTUAL primary vote.

I dread making predictions when Karl Rove is ready to blow away the end results(after the Dems bleed themselves). And if Clark ever signs on from his long soul-searching in the Cuomo Wilderness. I just think Kerry and Dean may manage to knock themselves out in spectacular fashion. It shouldn't happen, but I remember deciding smart people would end the unwinnable Vietnam War.

Does the Devil make us do it?