The Democratic Party is broke, bleeding, and at war. Don't blame Ken Martin

On the presidential campaign trail in 1908, a man at the front of a crowd hurled a cabbage at Republican candidate William Howard Taft. He missed, despite the fact that Taft, who won the election, was a huge target, weighing around 300 pounds. The soon-to-be president coolly shot back: “I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head.” (Most likely this widely-told tale is apocryphal, but nonetheless cute.)