REFORMING THEMSELVES INTO OBLIVION:

Gore acting on principle? (Jack Kelly, Dec. 10, 2003, Jewish World Review)

The Gore endorsement also suggests that real power in the Democratic Party today lies not with the party's regulars, but with left-wing special interest groups whose deep pockets compensate for the harm Democrats did to themselves when they embraced the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. [...]

Gore isn't as smart as he imagines himself to be, but he's no dummy. He's no doubt noticed that real power in the Democratic Party has shifted to left-liberal special interest groups like MoveOn. Org, which can accept the big buck donations from fat cats like George Soros that the McCain-Feingold law forbids the Democratic party from taking.

These organizations are flush with cash, while the Democratic National Committee scratches for bucks to finance its national convention in Boston, and South Carolina Democrats wonder how they can pay for what could be a pivotal primary. With organizations like these behind him, Gore could counter the prodigious fund-raising abilities of the Clintons.

Listening to John Kerry plead at the debate last night that the campaign isn't over yet--before a single vote has been cast--made it clear that the main effect of CFR on the Democrats has indeed been to hand control of their party to the special interests. They hate Bush so they demand the most hate-filled candidate--electability be damned.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 10, 2003 08:55 AM