hooray for debra saunders

debra saunders is one of my favorite columnists in the san francisco chronicle, even if she is dead wrong about gun control (bothenook editorial). she usually runs down the middle of the road, which in san francisco labels her as a conservative... anyway, sometimes she pops up over the horizon with a great column. Today's column is an example. i'll snip a little out for those linkage challenged folks.

Bottom line: The Democratic Party did not have to nominate a candidate who supported the war, but Democratic voters for some reason chose to do so.

Item: According to a New York Times/CBS News poll, three-quarters of Democratic voters opposed the war.

Item: The same poll found that 86 percent of convention delegates opposed the war.

Item: 100 percent of the Democratic ticket voted with GOP President Bush on Iraq.

she whacked one out of the park today. sometimes i really really get the impression the dems (at least the folks way up at the top) don't want this election, so they can run bill's business partner in '08. can't do that if kerry wins. going to be an interesting couple of months.