Why Can't We All Just Get Along?

This is not what we need right now:

"I think Howard Dean would be viewed as synonymous with being upper-East Coast liberal, and that just makes the burden on southern Democrats that much more difficult," said James F. "Jim" Kyle Jr. (D), the minority leader of the Tennessee Senate. "Hopefully he will try to be chairman of the entire party and not the chairman of a niche of the party members."

And hopefully, people like Kyle will give Dean a break and not feed unfair stereotypes about him to the media.

Reporters on this story right now are looking for conflict and controversy, and they want spicy quotes that illustrate that angle. Democrats should all agree not to give them any. Sure, some of these stories will get written anyway, but Democrats don't have to be such good enablers.

Update: Clinton agrees with me: "We've got to stop beating on each other and redirect our fire against the people we disagree with." Right on.