Have Sane Donks Had Enough?

This latest Zogby poll seems to say yes:

By objecting to virtually every initiative and proposal of the Bush Administration and congressional Republican majority, Democrats are undermining their party's chances of regaining the majority this fall, the John Zogby poll of 1,039 likely voters suggests.

While House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other visible Democrats in Washington pick fights with Republicans, the poll shows that 58% of rank-and-file Democratic voters say their leaders should "accept their lower position in Congress and work together with Republicans to craft the best legislation possible." Only 6% of Democratic respondents say the No. 1 goal for their party's lawmakers in Congress should be to bury Republican bills.

The poll suggests that many Democratic voters accept their party's minority status. Nearly a quarter of Democrats - 23% - say Republicans do a better job running Congress.

"Democrats nationwide now seem to be adopting this minority-status mind-set," says Fritz Wenzel, Zogby International spokesman. "Democrats are tired of the warring and bitter partisanship that goes on inside the Washington Beltway." [emphasis added]

If Zogby has an accurate reading of the non-Kos portion of the Democrat base, these results are little short of astonishing. Could the Dems have their own "silent majority"? Or at least a "placid plurality" that has grown weary of their party's endless jihads against George W. Bush and the GOP that have produced so much anger, bitterness, and strife with absolutely nothing to show for it at the ballot box? Could more and more Donks finally be ready to genuinely "move on"?

Well, it would certainly explain the burgeoning intra-party conflict that the Extreme Press is doing its utmost to try and ignore. It would seem to indicate that former Virginia governor Mark Warner will be a bigger player in the 2008 Dem presidential primaries than anybody has yet contemplated. And it runs at diametric odds with Dick Morris' newest angle that Al Gore will upend Hillary Clinton for the right to make his Nixon-like comeback.

More to the point, though, is that it harbors very ill for Dem chances this coming November.

Or will after the President comes to his senses and withdraws this Dubai ports deal.

[HT: PL]