by jane gordon [courtesy of Blog for America]

Before, I only questioned their tactics. All of a sudden, I question their strategy . And their motives. And here's why: from the way she (& Bill, & "surrogates") have been talking, it looks to me like they now plan to walk out of the convention, if she is unable to get the nomination. They will get up and walk out, and start their own version of their own party, and they don't even care that they will hand the power over to the Bush/McCain Party for the next four years. They don't care because they have lost control. They no longer control the DNC, Dean's 50-state strategy reached right around them and took it away, giving it back to the state parties where it belonged. They can't control the young people flooding in, and even their secret control weapon, the "super" delegates, have realized that they have to vote as their states' popular vote totals will dictate, so they have lost that one remaining vestige of control. These DLC cronies are funded only by their corporate donors, they have NO base in this party. So they will throw it out with the morning trash and make up some slick focus-group-tested new name for whatever they'll trot out ... the New-Democrats? the True-Democrats?... the Global-Democrats?