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I've been really frustrated with the Democratic party ever since the whole post-election 2000 fiasco, starting with them trying to blame Nader for "stealing" Gore votes, and it's only gotten worse. I think most of us pretty much knew (and dreaded) that the campaigns for 2004 would turn out the way that they have: an incredibly fractured Democratic party that can't agree on an agenda and thus spends the entire time taking cheap shots at each other and weakening the party instead of strengthening it.
Sigh.
I think that Democrats like to think of themselves as "a party of the people" that embraces more views and is more multifaceted than the slick, "manufactured" Republican party but I think they have to learn to play that game if they want to have any hope of competing.
I actually do think that because of Dean's financial record, he has the best chance of being the candidate that appeals to the other side of the political spectrum. But too many Dems are taking the Republican bait about him being McGovern II or being too "Socialist" to appeal to anybody but far-leftie liberals.
ETA: Oh, and I would hardly say that the Republicans have moved left -- just that the country has moved right.
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