Reply #10: A better question [View All]

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Are the candidates taking joy in the other candidates troubles?

You bet they are.

Look, this is a campaign, a fight to get to be the Democratic nominee for the President of the United States. It's not going to be pretty. But it never is, not with the Republicans either, when they have open primaries. Just ask John McCain.

And what if you honestly believe Candidate X would be a horrible nominee and a lousy President to boot? Wouldn't you want him to go down? What if you honestly believed that Candidate Y, your candidate, would be the very best choice? Doesn't his success depend on his opponents faliure to a certain extent? In order to win, somebody has to lose.

You said yourself that whatever the Democrats are dishing out to each other are kisses compared to what Rove has in store for the eventual nominee. I would rather they got some practice in now, even if it's against other dems, than be a deer in the headlights come Rove Time.