An Elephant In Donkey's Clothing?

A disturbing new trend is brewing in the Democratic Party.

An inability so self-criticize.

Nowadays if you raise a single question about the Kerry/Edwards campaign, that isn't mindlessly positive, you get slammed as being a pessimist, a freeper, a traitor, or worse.

One of the great things about the Democratic Party, I've always thought, has been the ability to have dissent from within.

If the cost of defeating George W. Bush in November is that we, as democrats/liberals/progressives have to give up our ability to ask questions of our candidate, to ask about potential dangers to the campaign, to report poll numbers if they are negative, to offer some advice or constructive criticism, or to say that we don't agree with something our candidate has said, then perhaps it's not really worth it.

Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps this newfound sense of unity and solidification is a good thing, but not if it causes us to be blind to our own faults and imperfections.