I think Rick got it precisely right.

From a transcript of former senator Fred Thompson on John Gibson’s Fox show (via The Corner)

ìGIBSON: do you have an explanation as to why the d.n.c. would ignore the advice of bill clinton and leave this issue (TANG) alone?

SEN.THOMPSON: i don’t know. it’s a difficult one to answer. i think that probably some insiders over there are so mad and so angry, you know, they are — they are smarter and prettier and have more sophisticated new answer positions on everything and more intellectual. and yet they still can’t quite get the point across. and here bush keeps lucy and the football — they keep missing it and bush keeps scoring. and i think there’s a lot of anger out there. and i think their manhood is at stake with regard to some of them.î