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DIRTY DIRTY POLITICS
With Democrat hopes to retake the House and Senate seemingly crumbling
by the day, both Senate minority leader Harry Reid and House minority
leader Nancy Pelosi have grown increasingly alarmed about the growing anti-Semitic and racist tone of their party's base, say House and Senate Democrat leadership staff.
"They have been monitoring the [Ben] Cardin and [James] Webb races and
they are extremely concerned," says a Senate Democrat leadership aide.
"On both campaigns' staffs and on the Internet we are hearing and
reading an ugliness that we haven't seen in probably decades. It's
embarrassing, but we're chalking it up to a small segment of young
people who are frustrated at constantly losing and are lashing out. To think otherwise raises too many uncomfortable questions about our party." (Heaven's that would be inconvenient).
Apparently the House and Senate leaders are more uncomfortable than
their party's most visible leader, because according to Capitol Hill
sources, both Reid and Pelosi have pressed Democrat National Committee
chairman Howard Dean to renounce the racist and anti-Semitic language
and campaign tactics employed by those most closely associated with
Dean's wing of the party, but Dean has refused to do so.
"He doesn't think it's a problem," says a DNC source. "This is
something dreamed up by desperate Republicans. If Dean were to speak
out, it would undercut the morale of a party that is on the verge of a
historic victory. He's not going to take that away."
In fact, the DNC may actually be encouraging it. ...[cont] |
What has democrat leaders paying attention to the hatred that's been
spewed by their party since 9-11? Polls that show Americans don't
like it. That's real leadership right there, I don't care who you
are.
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