Democrats woke -- and broke

The Democrats have no money but they do have 20-plus candidates for president.

Adam Parkhomenko, a former DNC national field director, told Vice, "When Hillary became the nominee in 2016 she was handed nothing. The DNC was nothing and there was nothing to build on. You’d think we would have spent the last few years making sure this would never happen again, and it has."

How you run your party is how you would run the country.

Fox News reported, "The Republican National Committee raised more than twice as much as the Democratic National Committee in June – $20.7 million compared to the DNC’s $8.5 million, according to Federal Election Commission filings, Politico reported."

The story also said, "The RNC currently has $43.5 million, more than double the cash on hand as the DNC’s $9.3 million."

More than double? It is nearly five times as much cash on hand.

Vice reported, "Trump’s campaign and the RNC are already using their massive cash advantage to sow the ground for next year’s election, spending more than $60 million this year alone on digital operations including $10 million on ads and building out a ground game infrastructure that takes months if not years to develop.

"Democrats can’t keep up."

Having 20 candidates for president run is not a good thing. 20 candidates gives you 19 losers. I get that rallying them in a stop Trump campaign appears easy but I also noticed many Bernie Sanders supporters smiled when Hillary lost.

President Donald John Trump had to win despite John Kasich and a host of other bitter-enders. Bush loyalists stood back and waited for a trainwreck. Candidate Trump did not have a Rocco or Moose to help the Koch Brothers find their checkbook.

But Donald Trump was an unorthodox who didn't need that much money. He carried the Republican team on his back in rally after rally. There were 22 Senate races in the 30 states he carried. Republicans won every race. They lost every race in the states he did not carry. This was a first.

Democrats have no Donald Trump.  He is in the first tier. Everyone else is in the third tier or lower.

Instead of indulging Marianne Williamson and the other loser candidates who are just in it for the money, Democrats need to lop off half of them.

There will be two 10-candidate debates later this month. Just have one, and make it the top eight: the gay mayor, the fake Indian, Willie Brown's ex-mistress, Creepy, Bernie, Spartacus, Hillary 2.0, and um, er. OK. Make it seven.

(In English that would be Buttigieg, Warren, Harris, Biden, Sanders, Booker and Gillibrand.)

This pileup not only is costing them the expense of two debates but dragging them further into lala-land as each proposes something weirder than the last weird idea. Warren has gone beyond reparations for black people to reparations for gays.

The people in the back of the pack will remain in the back of the pack.

At this point four years ago, Donald Trump was passing Jeb! in the polls. Republicans should have jettisoned the kiddie table and just let the big boys duke it out. The president emerged not from the zero percent popularity chart but from the front of the pack.

Meanwhile, this cattle call approach to casting a presidential candidate is hurting Democrats financially.

Vice reported, "While their top presidential candidates are raising big money, the tedious years-long work of building out party voter files, identifying voters’ top concerns, and turning them out to vote is the purview of the national party, the DNC. The party’s current lack of cash could hamstring their eventual nominee and hurt down-ticket candidates, especially in states that aren’t presidential battlegrounds and are especially cash-strapped.

"'This is a real problem that our party and the major donors are not facing,' said Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb, who said her party hasn’t 'received a dime yet' of money the DNC promised to them earlier in the year and hasn’t been able to hire field staff she’d planned on."

But hey, Beto O'Rourke has a staff in Iowa, as do 20 other candidates.

One caution: They have a year to get their act together.

UPDATE: Cor-Vet at Lucianne.com wrote, "This has to be FAKE news, because everyday, sometimes more than once a day, I get email solicitations from Rove, and every other 'Republican' fundraising organization or candidate, in panic because the Dems have collected sooo much more money than the Republicans, that if I don't contribute to them, the sky is going to fall and America will end!"

I hear you. Mega Ditto.