…the real civil war this year is going on in the Democratic Party — and it is going largely unreported.
One reason is that it is not a clear-cut battle between two easily identifiable forces, like Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and Grant’s Army of the Potomac. Rather, it resembles the guerrilla conflicts of the Civil War in Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, with local self-starters scurrying about in all directions…
Barone goes on to note the knock down, drag out fights which are killing the Democrats in Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Utah, New York and Illinois. All around the country, Democrats are getting at each others throats – some resolutely standing on the left, others desperate to disassociate themselves from it. Caught in the middle are rank-and-file Democrat voters who simply don’t know what to do – forbidden to even think of having a grass-roots effort like the TEA Party, Democrat faithful simply must wait until their masters hash it out. And if they don’t hash it out?
Its going to be an interesting political year – and very fun for a Republican.
