ANY TAKERS?

Former Senator Gary Hart had this to say today in the WaPo.

Great piece. That'd do the trick (the part about apologizing and meeting the parents etc). problem is that (as Hart should know by now having been targeted by the same people himself) anyone Dem or Rep who comes even close to doing that is opening themselves up to being "Smear-boated" or worse. If they're so brazen they'll do it to a grieving mother who's lost her son in a war, who wont they do it to, and what'll they do to a politician?

We do indeed need a Joseph N. Welch "Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last?" moment. But for that to happen somebody with some power in the Democratic party needs to come to the realization that his/her own personal fortune is not worth the damage being done by the other side's duplicity. The only person who could take the actions that Hart suggests is one who has decided that they don't care what they lose. Unfortunately, no one has yet shown any willingness to make that level of sacrifice or take that level of risk.