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August 22, 2008

I’m Not the Only One Hearing Rodents Mating

by AltHippo @ 5:12 pm. Filed under 2008 Elections

Over at Salon Tom Schaller discusses the Denver convention with Elizabeth Kamarck (one of the founders of the New Democrat movement ). The question of whether the PUMA crowd is a Republican front or not comes up:

Schaller: This brings us to the next question, which is, how much do you anticipate that Clinton supporters could be a serious problem for Obama at the Democratic convention? Are these PUMAs [Party Unity My Ass] and Just Say No Deal people a fringe element, and is it just going to be the media paying attention to them because there’s a story there but, ultimately, Hillary Clinton and her people are sitting on them? Or could this spin out of control?

Kamarck: Because I was a member of the rules committee, I’ve been bombarded by these folks for some months now. And there are two or three major groups that send out massive numbers of e-mails each day with bizarre, unsubstantiated rumors in all of them.

I will tell you they feel like Republicans to me. The whole business smells like a Republican front. I’ve been through intra-party battles, Mondale and Gary Hart and Carter and Kennedy, I was in the middle of those battles and this is not the way Democrats fight each other. And so something’s wrong here. Something’s weird here. I don’t quite believe it. Now if I get to Denver and there’s a significant Hillary revolt, I’ll have to eat my hat, but I think this is an Internet phenomenon. And it smells to me like a Republican front.

It smells to me like a Republican front, too. I don’t think it would take a substantial number of people to set something like this up, maybe a half-dozen. It’s hard to say. They could just be sore losers. Or, they could be Young Republicans posing as sore losers. A tough call.

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