The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten isn't in the same stable with the Washington Post's "serious" columnists, but he is an unrepentant Democrat, and I think his cynicism isn't entirely unfounded:
Why Not the Worst?
An agenda for the coming Democratic juggernaut
By Gene Weingarten
Sunday, June 4, 2006; Page W36
As I write this, Republicans are in free fall, wedded to an unpopular president who is mired in an ill-conceived war while afloat in a cesspool of scandal. The mixed metaphors alone are enough to make you sick. Conventional wisdom is that 2008 is looking great for the Democrats.
In politics, however, conventional wisdom is often wrong -- particularly where Democratic victory is presumed. Why, it seems like just yesterday that Al Gore managed to take a great résumé, a sophisticated command of the issues and a legacy of the country's strongest peacetime economy, and parlay them into defeat at the hands of -- and I mean no disrespect here -- a man who was considered a little weak in the brains by his own mother.
One suspects that, deep down, the Democrats secretly don't want to win. Which is why, as a service to their party, I offer today:
A 16-Point Plan for Blowing It:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053001024.html?referrer=emailarticleWasn't it Benjamin Franklin who said something like "We must all hang together, or we will all hang separately"?