'Here's $25 Million. Please Lose This Election For Me.'

I don't remember if I've written about this before (or just ranted on it to my friends), but as someone who generally supports the Democratic party, I'm always frustrated by the complete morons they hire to 'strategize' for them and run their campaigns (actually, I did sort of get into it last year when Paul Hackett was pushed out of the Ohio Senate race).

The final stretch of the 2006 stretch midterm race was definitely a step in the right direction-- running solid candidates, not backing down from GOP bluffs, running a truly national campaign-- but with 2008 coming, I worry that they may feel victim to the siren calls of the usual Democratic hucksters... you know, morons like James Carville who still think it's 1992.

The current issue of Rolling Stone magazine has an excellent article on this topic. I'd happily reimburse any Capitol Hill intern who decides to xerox this and put it under the office door of every Democrat in the building. The beginning-

2008 has the makings of a banner year for Democrats. The wave of discontent that swept the GOP from Congress last November is growing, and the Iraq debacle will make it difficult for Republicans to retain the White House. But there is one group of powerful Washington insiders who have a proven ability to derail the Democrats. Working behind the scenes, these top-tier operatives humiliated Mike Dukakis in a tank, muzzled Al Gore on the environment and portrayed John Kerry -- a lifelong crusader for gun control -- as a rifle-toting Rambo. Year after year they have made sure that the Democratic message comes across as little more than a fuzzy, focus-grouped drone about child tax credits, prescription-drug plans and the "fight for working families."

And here's the depressing news: The Democrats pay them millions to do it...

Worth reading.

Let's hope that the Democrats have learned their lessons. Losing elections isn't fun.