07/18/2004 8:10:55 AM PDT
· 12 of 29 glaux
to megatherium
Even if it had anticipated it with absolute certainty in Iraq, how would the outcome have been any different? We can't control the eruption of a riot in any given US city after a football game if a mob is so inclined.
They are intoxicated with hatred and this simply represents a Wellstone funeral redux. Here's hoping that the rage of the "liberal street" will be sated for awhile. A successful hand-over in Iraq and sound economic progress here at home may well push these frothing radicals further into the fringe.
"While trying to avoid ostentatious gloating, Democrat operatives quietly confide their hope that the public tributes to the late Paul Wellstone this week will lift the sagging Al Gore."
Projection is always a pathetic ego defense mechanism.