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To: Katelew who wrote (61107)	4/23/2008 2:52:51 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 542149

When you have a diverse, small-d democratic party that strives to make its nominees the product of a representative system, it's inevitable that one group or another is not going to be satisfied. Someone is going to get more votes and delegates than their competitors, whose supporters won't be happy. This year it was compounded by the idiots in FL and MI who joined in the leapfrog contest to see who could be first on the block. And now we have what amounts to a virtual stalemate that is hurting all wings of the party, because whichever punching bag survives the gauntlet, he or she will be weaker going into the fall in the eyes of the wider electorate. The rah-rah about a punch-up making them tougher doesn't erase the early impressions made by all the turds that stuck. Watching this whole sorry affair has reminded me why I never had any interest to go into electoral politics. It's a dirty business where the slime runneth over.