or we could have worked together.  now there's a thought!

i don't know exactly what clinton had against southern progressives, although we had a much more expensive idea about how education should be used to mitigation segregation and racism then he might have liked.  and clearly, we didn't fit into his dlc/third way mindset.  but to systematically destroy a state party?  that's not an indication of political leadership, it's an indicator of a cult of personality.

if you have an inclination towards either-or thinking, perhaps there was no other possible result.  but it would never occur to me that the only way for bill clinton to have won florida would have been to destroy the florida democratic party.  if so, that really would show what an ephemeral presidency clinton really was...