The Daily Kos has a crush on the Democratic Presidntial frontrunners:

It’s fascinating — the candidates are focused on substance, they’re treating each other and the audience like adults, and they’re having a serious, adult conversation about generally meaningful issues.  We haven’t seen that very often in the past.  I don’t think we’ll ever see it in a Republican debate.  We’ve got three potential presidents up there — they’ve got Lord of the Flies.

Is this what we’ve come to?  That three candidates with a grand total of 4 national office victories are the serious, stable ones?  On a partisan site like Kos (just like the conservative partisan sites), if the tables were turned the story would be completely different.  If Kos were a conservative site, it would say something like this:

It’s mind-boggling how the Democrats keep blowing chances at the White House.  Al Gore lost to W in 2000 because he couldn’t even carry his home state of Tennessee.  Kerry lost to a badly wounded W in 2004 because everyone forgot that Kerry didn’t have a personality until it was too late.  And now, in an election year being served up to the Democrats on a platter, the last three candidates standing are a smorgasboard of “never been elected” traits: we’ve never had a woman president (or even party nominee for president), we’ve never had a black president (or even party nominee for president), and the last one-term senator elected to the presidency was Warren G Harding (and though Clinton was re-elected to her Senate seat in 2006 that hardly counts since she’s been on the campaign trail during her  whole second term).  On the other hand, the Republican frontrunners feature two former governers (Huckabee and Romney), two long-time senators (McCain and Thompson), and a former multi-term mayor of the nation’s largest city (Guiliani).  We’ve got five potential presidents up there, and they’ve got the Junior High Debate Team.