At least the traditional republican version of democracy. In my voting lifetime, their commitment to democracy has been weak at best.

This is not recent problem. Maureen Dowd is hardly a young journalist yet she has often focused on shallow snark. The late so-called Dean of Washington Journalists, David Broder, was part of Sally Quinn’s Kool Kids’ Beltway Club along with Dod and most political journalists. When Gore ran against Bush Broder wrote that in his acceptance speech Gore went on so much about what he would do if elected Broder almost fell asleep. These two were among the group that thought Bush was better than Gore b…