This kind of warfare could easily throw the Democrats back to the 1968 and 1984 conventions, when ugly disputes over key issues between the party elders and it’s extreme left wing resulted in a Republican taking the White House.
The MoveOn.org “No money for war hawks” petition is also imaginative, in that it is essentially asking Democratic voters to state how much money they will not donate to party lawmakers:
“I commit to withholding contributions from individual Democrats—and from any party committee supporting them—if they succeed in sabotaging President Obama’s diplomatic agreement with Iran.”
There are non-donating dollar amounts, you can choose to not donate from $50 to a whopping $5,000.
Shenanigans aside, a wise choice on the part of Senate Democrats would be, obviously, to side with the president when they’re called to override Obama’s veto of a Republican resolution against the Iran deal.—as Schumer’s protégé, NY Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has done. The president will get his way, a deal that has already been applied by most of the rest of the world will stay in place and Hillary or Biden, whomever is picked as the Democratic presidential candidate, will still have a party apparatus to work with.