THE VRWC ATTACKS THE WANNABES AGAIN:

W. and Karl, Going to a Garden Party (MAUREEN DOWD, January 8, 2003, NY Times)

The Democrats are pathetic.

With Tom Daschle out, they don't even have seven dwarfs. They have six coifs--and that's not counting Hillary.

Once more showing the sure touch that could make Republicans the dominant party until the cows come home, the Democratic bagman Terry McAuliffe turned his back on New York City, the damsel in tristesse that has always come through for Democratic presidential candidates.

Even aside from the humane instinct to help a city caked in red ink and black memories, Democrats should consider New York lucky; when they've nominated winners, it was in Madison Square Garden--Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

In November over dinner in Manhattan, Mr. McAuliffe tried to bully Mike Bloomberg, warning the mayor that he would not even consider New York as a convention site unless Mr. Bloomberg agreed to stop trying to lure Republicans to the Garden. The suggestion was brusquely rejected by the brusque mayor, not out of party loyalty--he became a Republican only a New York minute ago--but municipal loyalty.

We feel her pain. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 7, 2003 11:45 PM