From The Seattle PI
By Jonathan Gurwitz

Since Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, the great political narrative has been about Hillary Clinton’s relentless and futile pursuit of the presidential nomination and how it is destroying the Democratic Party.

Malarkey.

The Democrats’ long, competitive primary race has allowed them to receive more media attention, raise more money, register more voters and create greater grassroots organization in more states than Republicans could dream.

A few months of intra-party squabbling isn’t going to do serious damage to a major political party. Years of unprincipled leadership, however, will.

That’s a lesson that Republicans still haven’t learned despite the drubbing they received at the polls in 2006.

Never mind the ephemeral acrimony between the Obama and Clinton camps. If you want a picture of a party that’s self-destructing, look at the Republicans.

In three successive special elections this year, Republicans have lost congressional seats in ruby red districts. First came Illinois’ 14th District, the birthplace of Ronald Reagan, a seat vacated by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and one that Republicans have won 37 out of the last 38 elections.

Then came a loss in Louisiana’s 6th District. Republicans had prevailed there in every election for three decades.

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