Since the Democratic Party's "shellacking" in last month's midterm elections, speculation has been growing about a possible 2012 presidential primary challenge to President Obama launched by his party's disgruntled left. I posted such an editorial, from the same dead-tree media, last week.
Talk of a primary challenge has only ratcheted up following Obama's announcement of the tax deal he cut this week with congressional Republicans.
Warning: If the Democratic left does to Obama in 2012 what it did to incumbent President Carter in 1980 via Ted Kennedy's damaging Democratic presidential primary challenge - or what the Republican right did to incumbent President George H.W. Bush in 1992 with Pat Buchanan's entry into the GOP primary - the Democratic party as a whole will find itself paying a steep price for years to come.
We live in hope ...
That's a promise, not a threat. Make no mistake: If the left costs Obama his presidency in 2012, the Democratic Party as a whole will lose out.
Don't worry, dear reader, he'll get around to telling us how horrible that would be!
Sabotage the nation's first black president and the Democratic Party might as well bid farewell to its most loyal base of supporters: African Americans.
Then the author observes all the black groups - young, women, etc. who voted for the One who might not support the Dims without O, but then claims his supporters are "racially and ethnically diverse." Then we get a long list of the One's fantastic achievements, not to be found with the likes of McCain-Palin - good thing we didn't elect those bozos!