Americablog gets it right, most of the time, and this post by John is particularly on target.

Only an idiot thinks Bush won the election because “much of the American public” supported anything in his platform. He won by default. People couldn’t stand him, they didn’t want him back as president, but the Democrats presented the voters with an even worse choice. And when it’s a choice between two evils, while Mae West may pick the one she hasn’t tried, the American people prefer the lesser of the two. Any Democrat who thinks Bush won, and we lost, because he had some kind of mandate is a fool.

This is just that much more evidence of why there needs to be a major blood-letting in the Democratic party, and soon. Heads need to roll. ROLL. People need to lose their jobs, en masse. After 2000, no one took responsibility. After 2004, no one took responsibility. And now it’s happening again. Our wonderful party leaders are sitting back and scratching their heads wondering why the country isn’t simply running into our arms while they sit back and do nothing to earn the country’s respect and loyalty.

There needs to be a major revolution in the Democratic party. Heads need to roll, and soon.

The Democrats are pathetic and the more of us who remind them of that and who actively look for alternatives both within the party and outside the party the better. Republicans will never hold their own accountable and that is their great weakness, but it is only a weakness if it is exploited. If we fail to point out the obvious and offer an alternative to conservative corruption and criminality then that weakness will just become another cute little Republican personality trait, like beating up on Veterans.