"What interested me most was Pat Caddell's viewpoints that at times mirrored some of P'dog's comments."
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It didn't surprise me.
Pat Cadell is kind of a poor man's Zell Miller. He did not like Clinton at all and even mentioned once in a radio interview that the thought of Madeline Albright as SecState was terrifying. The interview, as I recall, took place in about '94-'95, and it was about the situation in North Korea.
He's much like Zell in that he's disturbed by the party's current status and direction and wants to to bring it back to a respectable level of coherence and integrity. They differ in that I suspect he's not nearly as conservative as Zell, but he is nonetheless generally a straight shooter.
Pat Caddell and Zell Miller are some of the last remnants of a special breed of DemoRats, they are intellectually honest. A geniune rarity these days! They know a sinking ship when they see it and don't buy into the "everything is all right, remain calm" mantra spouted by the DNC in spite of all evidence to the contrary. I'm more than curious and would appreciate any other opinion on a simple question. How many more elections are the DemoRats going to have to lose before they figure out that their lefty wing and leadership is leading them down the road to oblivion?
Intellectually honest DemoRats are such an endangered species that you could probably take all of them to lunch at BK and have a tab of less than a hundred bucks. The rest are of the Kool-Aid drinking variety, blindly following their leadership's instructions to jump off the cliff for the greater glory of the party. History is not kind to losers, particularly not stupid losers?