Consider this: Another theory why the media wants to anoint Kerry [View All]

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Super Tuesday -- the one for the whole banana -- is March 2. That's a lot of news cycles, and so many things could happen between now and then.

Not to mention, it has occurred to me on more than one occasion that the DNC and other fund-raising organizations are getting plenty pissed that all of the $$$ that might otherwise be going to their PACs or The Anointed One is still Howard Dean's (or Wesley Clark's or John Edwards') on request. TM only wishes that his e-mails and direct mail efforts would generate millions of small-$ contributions on request.

They -- the people behind politics as usual -- are seeing their position as vulnerable, and who can blame them? Witness the spate of media stories around the 'Internet organizations (e.g., Dean) not quite ready for prime time'.

There are elements of truth in those stories, but primarily in that there are distinct advantages enjoyed by people who know how and will resort to good 'ol nasty retail politicking (paid 'volunteers', robo calls, push polling, caucus 'miscounts' ) that at the end of the day do trump well-funded, well-intentioned political newbies. This of course because the old guard knows that, once the numbers are posted on the tote board, that becomes the story...

At the end of MTP this a.m., the 'electability' question came up again, and it made me wonder once more, electable as defined by who? M-W defines it as 'capable of being elected.' Everything else is perception, which we all know is not necessarily reality.

There is some real urgency about getting the answers to this nagging questions resolved sooner than later. We will, of course, do what we have to do to get Bush out of the White House...but I don't want to short-circuit the process to achieve someone else's agenda.

With each successive news cycle it becomes more clear that it is continues to be about those political mainstays, money and power. Kerry, for all of his wins, doesn't have the support that Dean has, and he (or TM) has not been successful in convincing anyone otherwise. Pushing Dean or Clark or Edwards out of the race will not necessarily result in more money for Kerry or the PACs...and to try and win by short-circuiting, stifling or suffocating the process will only result in low voter turnout in the general election....and we have already seen how that movie ends.