Southern Dem warns party to avert disaster

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Southern Dem warns party to avert disaster
By JONATHAN MARTIN & MIKE ALLEN | 3/26/08 4:50 AM EST



Democrats are increasingly nervous about their party’s protracted nomination fight, and some prominent figures are publicly warning that the party needs to act fast to avoid disaster.

Chief among these voices is Phil Bredesen, the two-term governor of Tennessee who is uncommitted to either Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) or Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

In an interview this week with Politico, Bredesen said flatly that if the contentious slog continues until the Democrats’ late-August convention in Denver, the party would have a vastly diminished chance of recapturing the White House.

“They have a much steeper, rockier hill to climb if it goes to the convention,” the governor said over a dinner of rockfish and red wine. “You’re going to spend this whole summer – and lots of money and time and effort – trying to convince people that whoever isn’t eventually nominated, isn’t electable.

"That’s a heck of a hole to climb out of come the first of September,” he added. “What’s been going on for the last 90 days just gets worse and worse as the summer goes on.”

Bredesen also joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in warning that superdelegates should not overturn the outcome from primaries and caucuses.

If Obama were denied the nomination by Democratic insiders after winning the party’s popular vote, Bredesen said, “There would be hell to pay in the party for a long time to come.”

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[LakeSamish706]

1. I personally think that if this goes on much past April 22, we could be...

in serious trouble. Hillary, I think is contemplating a scorched earth policy using the Democratic Party as her tool. It wouldn't surprise at all if she pulled a Lieberman.

[madrchsod]

2. she`s a dixiecrat

he`s exposed her for what she is and she`ll do anything to destroy barack and the our party..lieberman? i think she already has