Democrats need current leadership to step aside so the party can move forward…

Senior MULTI-tasking

By chance, I was watching a movie while playing solitaire on my computer. My excuse is that it was a rainy, dull day and the afternoon lineup on MSNBC was far less interesting than TCM (when last I checked in our nation was going to hell in a handbasket and Rachel was sent back in to chronicle the journey.) The film was the 1972 political dramedy starring Robert Redford, The Candidate, loosely based on the campaign of John Tunney who served in Congress as a Representative (1965–1973) and then as Senator (1971–1976).

If MSNBC had been around back then, Tunney (and by proxy, Redford’s Bill McKay) would have been darlings of the network’s stable of hosts and commentators. Morning Joe regular, Mike Barnicle appears in a cameo appearance as “Wilson.” Barnicle at the time was a speechwriter for various candidates including Tunney. The film is a comical-cynical look at American campaigns as Redford’s McKay is talked into running against an older incumbent. The matchup is young and naive liberal environmentalist versus the experienced and condescending business-oriented conservative- David and Goliath without the slingshot.

The plot felt familiar as I watched the unfolding campaign in a movie that was rushed into production to open…