DNC hopefuls test limits of crazed anti-Trump rhetoric.

Posted: Feb 23, 2017

brings you credibility like bashing President Donald Trump. So, it should not have been a surprise to see the eight candidates for Democratic National Committee chairman twist themselves into knots Wednesday to prove they are the most virulent opponents of the president. He’s violating the Constitution! He’s causing children to wet their beds! He’s a computer virus! A fascist! A thief! Oppose him! Impeach him! And on and on it went for two hours during CNN’s televised debate. The partisan crowd in Atlanta ate it up. Middle-of-the-road Americans likely found it over the top. Democrats will choose their next leader Saturday. It is a party adrift, shut out of the White House, in the minority in both houses of Congress and on the outside looking in state government after state government. The DNC, itself, has been rocked by scandal. Emails stolen from the DNC and published by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks revealed collusion between top party officials and Hillary Clinton long before she wrapped up the party’s nomination for president last year. That opened a rift between her supporters and those of primary opponent Bernie Sanders that lingers to this day. The men and women who want to take the helm of the party obviously have discovered that the elixir to that division is a healthy dose of anti-Trumpism, and they were in no mood for accommodation.... Trump has been in office barely a month, but...;