Just because I can’t help myself, some more reading on the growing “concern troll” movement in the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n
From Matt Bai, in the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n In the summer of 2005, Mark Warner, then Virginia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s governor and a likely candidate for president, was the honored guest at a meeting of liberal donors just north of San Francisco – the same kind of crowd to whom Barack Obama was talking last week when he made his comments about bitterness, guns and religion. On that night, Mr. Warner proudly rose to make his case for why his success in Virginia could translate into Democratic success in other rural states, and to explain how he had improved schools and local economies in the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forgotten mining towns. But to his frustration, the donors were far more concerned about his stands on social issues – why he had capitulated to rural voters by embracing gun rights and parental notifications for abortions. At the end of the evening, as one of the donors pushed him further on abortion, Mr. Warner finally lost his cool. “This is why America hates Democrats,” he blurted before he drove away.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n