LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT’S A QUAGMIRE, HEADING FOR INEVITABLE DEFEAT, and only a resignation at the top will expiate the failure so far:

“John Kerry Must Go.”

That Village Voice headline may be a tad dramatic, but stories about disaffected Democrats are spreading like wildfire through the media forest.

I think that betrays a lack of perspective, and a willingness to give up too soon, that’s all too typical of those overexcitable political and journalistic types. Fortunately, there’s a sane blogger on the job:

Kevin Drum, a California-based columnist for the Washington Monthly, says that Kerry isn’t a great campaigner but that “it’s just too early” for such pieces. “I’m not sure it’s anything other than [reporters] looking for a story. . . . It’s pretty much inside the Beltway.”

I agree.