It never really has anything to do with who the leading candidate is, which in this case is Dean. It is all about a lack of discipline, an excess of ambition, and a complete absence of statesmanship. The People need for Bush and Company to be removed from office, and he is very vulnerable to a smart and organized campaign. But the trailing candidates (Kerry, Gephart etc) have forgotten that very real need in their hunger for fame and power - what amounts to a basically naked desire to win at any cost.
The Republican Party loves this. Totally free negative campaigning, which is all the more sweet because it can't be laid at their doorstep. Right now the Republicans must be in ecstasy.
Neither Party deserves to continue to be in power, because neither Party seems to understand and appreciate the real depth of the danger to the Republic (which hangs by a tread). Nor do the Greens offer anything. The reality is that it is going to be up to the People themselves to pick up the pieces after the two conventions and swallow their disgust with the Democrats, so as to support what ever lame candidate they produce, and vote that person in as the only way to get the disease of neo-conservatism out.
The World very much needs for the United States to be strong and wise, and the best we can manage is a government so depraved in its loss of real statesmanship that it borders on fascism, and an opposition Party so self centered that it once again turns to cannibalism as its favorite sport.
The Founding Fathers must be weeping in shame.
