Think Maybe Batman's On Twitter? Holy Logjam Alert!

Because the Batsignal to his cell phone seems to be in a dead spot.

As MOMocrats before me have eloquently posted here, here, here, and as is flying around the blogosphere everywhere, Democrats are in the position of having two tenacious and very good candidates potentially exhaust themselves--and the public--with a long, drawn-out battle to the nomination. All the while, McCain relaxes and lobs potshots at either candidate at his leisure, resting and building up contributions and fattening his strategy playbook while Clinton and Obama take swings at each other.

Don't. Even. Get. Me. Started. On. Nader.

Now I've been a Democrat long enough to know that if we know excel at one thing, it's banding the wagons together for a nice circular firing squad. WTF?

Can we not do this JUST ONCE? Will a Clinton win over the popular vote or the pledged delegates by way of a back-door superdelegate strategy be worth destroying the Democratic Party in order to gain the presidency? What kind of legitimacy is in that Pyrrhic victory? Let's say she became the nominee and overlook how her lower pledged delegate numbers (from state primaries) and fudged Florida/Michigan support plus superdelegates were achieved. Is it worth having the eventual nominee--whoever she or he is--start the arduous race against McCain already ground to a pulp from the battle for the nomination?

Because I'll tell you: WE NEED TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2008, OR IT'S NEVERENDING WAR UNDER McCAIN.

I'm sure there's tons of back room maneuvering going on right now. Possibly Obama is trying to line up superdelegates in sufficient numbers to squelch Clinton's insurgent attempt to become nominee.

But I'm pleading with Democratic Party muckety-mucks: please don't let the nomination process rip this party apart. We need solutions, now. Fix the Florida/Michigan problem before it blows up in all our faces. We need to win in 2008.

• Now would be a great time to hear some impassioned endorsements from previous candidates for one of the two frontrunners. John Edwards, do you have any clarifying statements to make? You obviously still carry a lot of weight with former supporters.
• Howard Dean, that phone appearance on The Colbert Report was embarrassingly ditzy, so I'm hoping--no, expecting--you're working whatever mojo you've got to discipline the party. Where is party leadership in deflating some egos to broker a truce, or setting some boundaries for above and below the belt hits, for example? I don't think anyone has the stomach for a race-to-the-bottom mudslinging campaign (another sure way to destroy the party if not the entire country). Otherwise it's chicken fights--Clinton pummels Obama while McCain pulls the levers or takes notes. And vice versa, with McCain the big winner.
• Mainstream media, stop with the bipolar and reactive "bash Clinton/Obama" swings. It's almost as bad as the "gender or race/more sexist or more racist?" Oppression Olympics when it comes to characterizing the candidates and the demographics they attract. In the press' eyes, these candidates are either a victim or totally aggro. Again, WTF? THAT IS NOT OBJECTIVITY OR FAIRNESS, THAT IS LAZY REPORTING. You can help the conversation rise above, or you can continue with jabbing your foam finger in the air every time the ball gains or loses yardage on the field. You so totally dropped the ball altogether with reporting the run-up to the war in Iraq...your karma is in need of serious redemption and you can do it here. Washington Post, with your dipshit and universally reviled Charlotte Allen op-ed piece that I refuse to link to, I'm looking at YOU. MSM, how about taking the vetting process seriously and enterprising some issue- or platform-based reporting on how the candidates stand, instead of reacting to the mudsling du jour from each candidate?
• People--vote wisely. Don't just go by a tv ad. Talk, read, get some information to help you decide. A fact-free 30-second tv commercial is great to hear about burgers or cars, not so good for choosing a candidate. Donate to your candidate's campaign. Contact your current elected representative and make your views known on how superdelegates should conduct themselves at the Democratic National Convention: superdelegates are all elected Democratic members of Congress and Democratic governors (I stress elected, as in, "wanna be re-elected?"), plus random party officials.

Don't make me send George Clooney after you to open up a can of whupass. Because he will bend your ear about Darfur and then you'll be sorry.

Cross-posted at P i l l o w b o o k.

Comments

[Summer]

"WE NEED TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2008, OR IT'S NEVERENDING WAR UNDER McCAIN"

I say we pool our resources and buy billboards with these very words on them as close to both Obama's and Clinton's homes as possible. The bickering has to stop, we cannot have four years of McCain.

[Lawyer Mama]

So true. And don't get me started on Nader either. Did you see the video about him I put up last week. I want to smack him right now.

[cynematic]

So true, LawyerMama. Can we export some of our masochistic spoil-sporters in the Democratic Party to the GOP? Sheesh.

"Here are your laurels. Why don't you lie down on them, and take a nap."

[debbie - i obsess]

I think I just got a little stray heat from the cracking whip in your post, C, and it burned me. DAmn.

I want to beat McCain.

That. Is. All.

The. End.

No.

Really.

[cynematic]

Heh heh, just call me Demo Party Dominatrix. ;)