I'm sorry to hear that former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner has bowed out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. If you're a JFK-Scoop Jackson Democrat, where do you turn? Hillary? Gore? Kerry? Edwards? All four have now positioned themselves to the left on major national security issues, and Bayh and Vilsack won't last beyond Iowa, if that. With Warner's departure, Lieberman's pending victory, the DLC's passiveness in challenging the left, and the recent national security votes on Capitol Hill, the Scoop wing of the Democratic Party is nearly extinct today. In the old days, Scoop Democrats challenged Nixionian realism and détente with the Soviets and backed Reagan against their own party's liberals on key security issues. Those days are long gone -- for now at least -- and that's a shame.