The Dems Are Awakening...Maybe

Hillary is the clear-cut favorite to be the Donk nominee in '08. That isn't sitting well with some in the party of Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy:

Even yellow dog Florida Democrats express profound reservations about your presidential ambitions. They worry that you cannot attract moderate and independent voters and that your presence will hurt the election chances of other Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.

They fear, Hillary, that you would doom Democrats to impotence for decades. Republicans might relish that prospect, but on reflection, they would acknowledge the importance of a strong two-party political system. Should the Democratic Party be crippled, the Republican Party is likely to become complacent, uninspired and unaccountable.

Fair or not, you are identified with the far left, and you are not the person to convince voters that Democrats have ideas for keeping families safe and the country secure.

You are not the one who can assure Americans they will have a chance to get ahead.

I have my doubts whether or not the neoliberals will buy any of this. They want nothing more than to elect a Democrat--any Democrat. If Hillary is their best shot, the Kos readers of the world will back her.

She will have to go far to the left during the primaries (a position she is comfortable with as it is her true ideology) but will have to go centrist in the general election. I just don't see how that's possible given how whacky the far left are.

We have plenty of time to see how this plays out, but I suspect you'll see more and more of these types of editorials over the next two and a half years.

Update: On second thought, they are to fractured to win anything. When liberals attack NARAL and NOW, the schism is too severe to be rectified easily.