Sometimes it’s hard …

Sometimes it’s hard to keep the attack dogs at bay. When they’re your attack dogs, then you’ve got a real problem.

High-level Democrats, including some inside the Kerry campaign, were appalled by this week’s political sideshow. Just as John Kerry began finding his voice on Iraq, he was in danger of being drowned out by Democratic operatives Joe Lockhart and Terry McAuliffe. But the Democratic presidential candidate had only himself to blame.

Democratic critics can hardly comprehend that Lockhart, President Bill Clinton’s spokesman who was recently taken aboard the campaign by Sen. Kerry, telephoned a notorious Bush-bashing eccentric who was CBS’s source of the discredited documents. They also are unhappy that McAuliffe, the Clinton-selected Democratic National Committee chairman, has launched an advertising campaign attacking President Bush’s National Guard record.

The complaints are not limited to specific cases. One party activist with a nationally familiar name calls Lockhart and McAuliffe ”attack dogs” who go beyond the facts and get Kerry off message. But the nominee brought Lockhart into the campaign and could, with a single telephone call, suppress McAuliffe’s Bush-bashing. This is Kerry’s campaign, and he is responsible for these distractions from his new focus on Iraq.

McAuliffe is about the worst person you can have on your team. Look out, Mr. Kerry.

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