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It's absolutely true that the Neocon influence has infected and infiltrated the Democratic party, and even to this day Dems are not opposing it strongly enough (if at all). That is why I'm wondering why Glenn would hold up John Edwards, who was not vocally anti-war in the past, and who gladly went along with the Neocon plan in the Senate, as favorable to Bloomberg. If Edwards can change his views on Iraq and our Middle East policies, why is it impermissible or improbable for Bloomberg to do the same? I suspect Glenn is more of a die-hard populist than anything else, and he's afraid of Bloomberg's presumably corporate-friendly, "elitist" candidacy eclipsing a more-populist Democratic candidate more than he's afraid of a Neocon-foreign-policy threat.
