Hope IS Alive

Reading with delighted anticipation about the possibility of Hillary conspiring to take the nomination out from under Obie at the Democrat Convention, I unfortunately saw an imminently sensible response:

"The Democratic Party would rather lose the election with Obama than lose the Black vote for 30 years because of convention shenannigans."

It was so logical that it put the delicious idea of a Clinton fire-bombing at the Convention into my "fantasy" column...sadly.

But then I was reminded of the actual makeup of the Democrat Party. It's a loose collection of contentious malcontents with competing priorities and agendas...and equal propensities for lying, hatred, arrogance, stupidity, greed, back-stabbing, flip-flopping, selfishness, disloyalty, short-sightedness and general cluelessness.

Will any one group among them willingly think past the immediate gratification of their own hunger for power, the opportunity to enact their own favorite policies...without regard to the long term effects it might have on the future of the party that really only exists to service their own ambitions?

The Democrats don't have a common underlying (overarching?) political philosophy. They are just a group of radical groups who all have their own diverse gripes and grievances. What's good for one is not necessarily good for all. And that just might be all it takes for some serious fireworks at the Convention.

God, I hope so.

The Gunslinger