WELLSTONE II: Apparently there was a lot of Bush-bashing at the Coretta King funeral, enough that some people are embarrassed.

Why does this keep happening? Part of it, I think, is that the Democratic Party is in a state where it finds it hard to get national TV coverage except when someone dies. I think that their behavior reflects another forlorn hope for regeneration. I guess looking at policies is out of the question, though.

UPDATE: Doesn’t look like the youth vote is going to save them.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The Anchoress sees a Wellstone parallel, too, and observes: “No, none of it was surprising.”

MORE: Jay Reding writes: “Can we have some dignity, please?”

Apparently not. And this post by Eric Muller only serves to underline the very point it attempts to refute. The problem with today’s Democrats is that they try to invest the naked hunger for power with the dignity of the civil rights movement, a dignity that they no longer possess because it was based on a self-discipline that they no longer possess.