Though partisan fighting is certainly not something to celebrate, Frank argues that had the “the fights of the nineties” not been fought, it would have spelled disaster for the Democratic party:
“I agree that it would have been better not to have had to fight over some of the issues that occupied us in the nineties. But there would have been only one way to avoid them — and that would have been to give up. More importantly, the only way I can think of to avoid “refighting the same fights we had in the 1990’s”, to quote Senator Obama, is to let our opponents win these fights without a struggle.”
More at the Huffington Post…
