All the speculation about who should be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008 is fun, but taken too far it's positively damaging to the Democratic party.
If you're Mark Warner or Mike Easley or Wesley Clark or Ed Rendell, and want to run for President it's probably not too early to start thinking about it.
But if you're just involved in the lower-paid echelons of politics you should be thinking about 2005 or 2006, and who is going to run for dull sounding jobs like commissioner of public widgets, and whether there will be someone to run against the seeminly entrenched Republican in the state house district you live in.
The Democrats hold fewer governors offices and fewer state houses than the Republicans, and the flow-on effect for Democratic chances at the Congressional and gubernatorial level is corrosive. It leads directly to the search for "biography" candidates without political experience.
The good news is that in Minnesota the incredible people at Wellstone Action have developed an amazing program that won eight state house seats.
This is the kind of relatively cheap, high yielding program the Democrats need to have in every state, so that the next Democratic Senator from Mississippi and other apparently hopeless cause states is identified now, rather than waiting for her parents to meet and fall in love ...
Posted by robe0419 at November 16, 2004 12:45 PM