I don't have a lot of sympathy for Joe Manchin here. The Democrat senator from West Virginia should know what to expect when he gets in bed with the Clintons - sorry, that's really not the best allegory for all kinds of reasons that I suppose should be obvious - but establishment Democrats are just like the ones on our side in many ways. There's the candidate they'd really like, and then there's the one you feel you need to "be reasonable" and accept.