While Republicans have long understood the WINNER TAKE ALL nature of presidential elections, Democrats have tended to feel 'dirty' about the dog fight-like nature of process, and fought lamely as a result.
This has yielded vanilla candidate after vanilla candidate (think: Dukakis, Gore, Mondale, Kerry), and defeat after defeat (save for two-time heavyweight champion, Bill Clinton).
With that as a backdrop, some sage clarity and exposition from Maureen O'Dowd in today's New York Times:
One of the most valuable lessons the gritty Hillary can teach the languid Obama — and the timid Democrats — is that the whole point of a presidential race is to win.
It’s not to share power, or force the squabbling couple into an arranged marriage.
The winner wins, even if it’s only by a fraction of a percentage point or one Supreme Court justice.
Winning has no margin of error, as the Democrats should have learned by now. And the winner gets to decide his or her running mate.
Read the full article HERE. It is extremely crisp and well articulated.
