Is it going under? Matthew May worries that they are. I have to agree.
There is a faint hope for the party in such persons as Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee and Barack Obama, their nominee for the Senate in Illinois. These two are the opposite of the current leadership–dynamic and smart, as well as unwilling to merely step back and call the Republican Party names, or see how much horse manure they can throw at the wall until some of it sticks.
Unfortunately, they are both black, and the Democratic Party speak often of inclusion and diversity, but are unwilling to allow anyone like these two men to have any real power. Do they fear that intelligent men like this might overthrow the “legitimate” leaders of the Party? I have great faith that these men, along with such people as J. C. Watts and Condoleezza Rice can eliminate race as an issue.
Perhaps that is why the DNC is afraid.