re: #213 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

I don’t agree, in the sense that the people making a lot of noise about being The Dem Base, aren’t. Many are just followers of Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald, who isn’t even a leftist, and are somehow deluded Cynthia McKlanny or Elizabeth Warren is going to primary Obama.

Not the sharpest tools in the shed.

It may be cynical, but Obama’s strategy is basically “what other choice do they have?” when it comes to the liberal base. By the time they’ve heard a year of insane Perryisms, the base should be sufficiently motivated to keep him out of office. (At least this is Obama’s thinking now.) Unless Obama caves far more than he already has, I don’t see anyone who can mount a credible primary challenge. Warren wants the MA Senate seat, McKinney would be laughed off the stage immediately. By comparison, TK and even Pat Buchanan were heavyweights.