Reply #132: Don't everybody panic. The problems of the Democrats aren't really problems.

[Missouri Blue]

We have a totally energized base, with enough votes to crush the Republicans and John McCain. We have two excellent candidates. We shouldn't worry when the third runner up was John Edwards! Look at what the Republicans had to work with, for goodness sake. Then there's Al Gore. If we play this right, we can have a quarter century of very good presidents.

Just make a pledge to vote for the winner. Remember that both Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama will sign the same health care, the same education, the same Iraq bills that Congress will bring them. Both will do equally well reversing the Executive abuses of Bush. Don't be carried away by these two candidates huge egos. Listening to either one will make you think he and she are the only ones for the job.

The party leadership, Dean and the super-delegates, are going to have to mediate and come up with a deal between both candidates. This is really one time that party officials should step in. It's not hopeful that these two ambitious people are going to back off on their own, even if neither of them wants to destroy the party. They have to be brought to the negotiating table. They both have presidential size egos, they are not going to go there on their own.