The Democratic Party Suicide Watch...

Over the past couple of days, they have lined up in front of the microphones to denounce their party chairperson. Gov. Richardson. Sen. Biden etc. Puzzling it is, when party leaders, who voted in a national party chairperson seek to distance themselves from him by asserting that he is the party spokesperson. Simply because he spoke his mind devoid of the political doubletalk reminiscent of traditional beltway politics. What are some of Gov. Dean’s indiscretions which have so earned him the “ugly swan” status within his own party?

• After Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed, he claimed that the GOP leaders (who had contested the court’s decision to have the tube removed) were brain dead. Other Dem leaders claim insensitivity.
  
• He claimed that at the opportune time, the Dem party will use the Schiavo case to prove the extremism of the compassionate conservative agenda.
  
• He said that Tom Delay was a criminal, without expressing his point as an allegation. He was unable to tell Tim Russert of what crime Delay was guilty.

As the mid-term elections draw nigh, once again, the Dem party is holding a gun to its own head, with multiple fingers on the trigger. This attempt at political suicide exhibits the disjointed nature of the party’s operational structures. The governors do not seen to talk to the senators, the senators do not seem to talk with the Democratic National Committee.

There seems to be an absence of a command and control unit which seeks to understand and meet the needs of the electorate. The bridge between the Dem electorate and the elected officials seems to have been flooded in the recent political storms brewed by the GOP. What happened to the Dem Party which was a party for minorities, a party for women, a party for all individual rights, a party for the poor and middle class, a party for the progressives?

In the face of democratic loses in the past two presidential elections and with the GOP control of both houses of the legislature, the Dem party has drifted away from representing its base to seek a pseudo-GOP image. In so doing, they make Ken Mehlman look like a political zeus and the GOP look like the party of the future. They make the DNC chairperson, Gov. Howard Dean look like a political Lilliputian and their party an orchestra in great need to a practice session prior to the great concerto. It is time to either take a vote of confidence against Chairman Howard Dean or find a way to strengthen the DNC, which is a salient piece in any attempt to capture the White House in 2008. What will the democrats do? I’d say shoot themselves in the head!!