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[WilliamPitt]

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With liberals and centrists vying for influence, the Democratic Party's nominee faces the challenge of herding cats and getting them to stop scratching each other.

As well, those in the party's left have developed an emotional, visceral and personal dislike of Bush. They mirror the right's Clinton-haters of the 1990s. Hatred is not, however, the stuff to win the White House against a well-liked incumbent.

"He (Kerry) is the one candidate in the race who can bring the Democratic Party together," Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said in introducing Kerry to a Sunday gathering.

Kerry was tiptoeing on Sunday, but did go into how liberals shoot themselves in the foot.

Exhibit A, he said, was the enormous amount of effort and money Democrats had to spend in the Northwest in 2000 "to pull people back from the (Ralph) Nader precipice." Invested elsewhere, it might have won the day for Al Gore.

He is impatient with Democratic oratory about the "stolen" election. "Stop crying in your teacups," he told one audience. "It isn't going to change. Get over it."

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