Ok, fess up. Which of you put dead rabbits on Puma doorsteps...

Recently, several of them met privately with Senator Chuck Schumer, who runs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. According to a number of attendees and sources with direct knowledge of the meeting, their purpose was to lobby Mr. Schumer about introducing a new code of conduct for Democratic candidates that would officially declare gender bias as offensive as racism, and to encourage him to make it the official position of the party not to deal with media outlets perceived to be trafficking in misogyny.

“It was productive,” said one attendee.

“Hi everybody. I hope that the Denver convention will be turned into the American equivalent of Tiananmen Square,” wrote a commenter named “johninca” on a Web site announcing PUMA’s 2008 “convention” in Washington.

In an interview, Darragh Murphy, the founder of PUMAPac, called the meeting crucial to counteract Mr. Obama’s aggressive and prolific online supporters.

..."Ms. Murphy, a mother of three who lives outside Boston, believes that the only way to save the Democratic Party at this point is to destroy it. Mr. Obama must lose, and his supporters must be purged.She said that Obama supporters have harassed her and her followers by banging on their windows with pots and pans in the middle of the night, making phone threats and leaving dead rabbits on their doorsteps.

“If this guy wins, that style of campaigning will become the de facto method,” said Ms. Murphy.

We have become aware of attempts by the DNC and the Obama campaign to intimidate delegates. We know how Obama feels about “those people”, like there’s something wrong with us and they should stay away from us. Oh, yes, they are trying to make us as unpopular as Michael Moore. It’s their goal to dehumanize us, to make us objects. That way they can heap scorn and derision on us and diminish our power. The Obama supporters can treat us like less than human without penalty.

Well, that kind of $#*^ has consequences.

Tonight, one of our coalition members is missing. She hasn’t been seen since she left our conference site earlier this afternoon. No one has been able to contact her on her cell phone. Her mother is worried because she knows her daughter has had anonymous phone calls to her cell phone, threatening to track her down, who actually *knew* where she was and where she was going.

We are all very, very concerned. But this is what happens when you reduce your opponent’s supporters to dirt beneath your feet, easily ignored, dismissed, illegitimate."

“I really believe she will be the nominee—I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t,” said Ms. Lieberman, who met Mr. Obama once on the campaign trail. (“He didn’t pay a bit of attention to me,” she said. “He’s tall and looked around for someone more important

Ms. Fasano volunteered for the campaign and attended the D.C. event where Clinton suspended her candidacy, crying "never, never" when the candidate asked her supporters to back Obama. "I've got to do everything I can to make sure he never sees the inside of the oval office," she said. "Right now the PUMA people and the No Deal people, we have been trying to get Hillary on the ballot. After August, our mission will be to do everything to make sure that Obama doesn't win."

Ms. Fasano, 62, wanted to hear the strategy first hand at the secret meeting in Washington on August 9, but with her sole income coming from disability payments, she said she would save her money and energy for a trip to Denver in August. She said that most of her money goes to Clinton in one way or another, including the $25 she had just donated to get invited to an East Hampton fund-raiser for Clinton the following day East Hampton.

"It would help me if I could really talk to Hillary," she said in a heavy Brooklyn accent. She planned to attend, but wasn't optimistic about her chances of scoring any face time. "If she could tell me what she really thinks, it would make me feel a little better. It wouldn't make the sadness go away. It kills me to hear her talking about Obama. It kills me. It's like a knife in my heart. He's the enemy.

It’s very, very possible (Clinton could get nominated). She has many votes,” said Elaine Kamarck, a member of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee and a superdelegate who endorsed Clinton during the primary. She has since switched her support to Barack Obama . She teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.