In his Wednesday OpEd column in the Washington Post, Harold Meyerson, “editor at large” at the liberal American Prospect, provides a valuable insight into the thinking of liberal Democrats.
In discussing the results of last month’s “primary” conducted by MoveOn, which he describes, with understandable understatement, as a “left-leaning, antiwar online organization,” Meyerson notes that 86% of the participants said they could enthusiastically support Howard Dean if he won the Democratic nomination. John Kerry was in second place, with 75%. Near the bottom were Gephardt, with 53%, and Lieberman, with only 42%. Meyerson then adds:
(Al Sharpton ran ninth: MoveOn voters clearly thought him an implausible president, and Lieberman, an implausible Democrat.)
Thus MoveOn “primary” participants, whom Meyerson describes as “a significant, if not necessarily representative, sample of liberal Democrats,” apparently regard Al Sharpton as a more plausible Democrat than Joe Lieberman.
Such is the Democratic Party these days that they may be right.
