September 13, 2005

Like flies on a ripe carcass...

... even so were Democrats on the Upper West Side this morning. Every street corner was pullulating with 'em, shoving pamphlets at the hapless passerby.

What's got 'em so stirred up this year? Every office seems to have six or seven contenders, all shrieking the same unmeaning, anodyne platitudes at the top of their lungs. Are a lot of term limits expiring? Or are they expecting a Reversal of Fortune nationally in '06 or '08, and they really want to be at the officeholders' trough when that happens?

Seriously, I'm curious. I've never seen quite so many of these zombies lurching around for a primary. What has galvanized them into this shambling semblance of life?


(Forwarded by a New York correspondent) Posted by gracchus at September 13, 2005 09:16 PM | TrackBack

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