Not to fear, SRS...

Because Bush has screwed up so badly (yet again...) there is a certain amount of anxiety in the electorate and so the Dems are just doing what is politically expedient in tryin' to get the weaker horses outta the race so that 3 or 4 can clearly focus on not only Bush's failures but their respective agendas which I doubt will be too different from the others left in the race...

Face it... the American people feel robbed by the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections and so they are eager to set that period of history behind them... The Dems know this and are doing what represents some hope that thibngs won't be as messed up as they are today forever...

Not that I have any serious belief that the Dems have proven that they can rise to the occasion but, hey, we'll see...

No mattter, it's ggod politics...

Bobert