Pundit Pap (APJ): Signs of Desperation

[Dudley_DUright]

Toward the end of the week, the upper crust of the "commentariat" seemed to be almost openly wringing their hands at what had emerged from the first DNC-sponsored debate among the nine Democratic presidential hopefuls.

Great Scott! Not only had the rest of the field refused to turn on former Vermont governor Howard Dean (over which you just know that the biased, play-along-with-the-pack pundits would have opined with glee about the "divided Democrats' infighting") - the candidates actually had the nerve to proclaim that the presidency of former Texas governor Bush was a "failure... a miserable failure."

The criticism was focused in particular on Smirk's number one foreign policy catastrophe: Iraq.

This meant that Karl Rove had but one choice: lock War Secretary Don "Grampa" Rumsfeld and his chief policy Paul "Collateral, Schmatteral" Wolfowitz in the White House basement and send Secretary of State Colin Powel and the hapless Condolleeza Rice out to shill for Junior on the Sunday morning policy-and-campaign circuit.

more...

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030907punditpap.html

on edit: forgot link. Duh!