[mountaineer]

A gay/black coalition? I guess a lot of guilt-ridden white lefties would be attracted to such a cause. But enough to win outside the bastions Dems will win anyway?

If the GOP demonstrates sufficient cajones to bring this to everyone's attention, it can use this to win back the Reagan Democrats, e.g., the steelworkers and other union guys who are really Republicans, if they'd just admit it to themselves.

[mountaineer]

Things are not well in Democrat land when this is what James Carville has to say of a fellow Dem, the lovely and talented Howard Dean:

"I'm scared to death that this guy just says anything. It feels like he's undergone some kind of a political lobotomy here."
Robert Novak column on Dean's gaffes