While O'Malley's campaign also forcefully pushed back after the debate schedule was announced, with a senior strategist proclaiming the party seemed intent on "facilitating a coronation", the candidate's words represented a direct attack on the DNC by a former chair of the Democratic Governors Association.
Mr. Vidal's drama about backroom deal making and the withering of America's political discourse first opened on Broadway in 1960, back when party conventions in election years were still suspenseful battles for delegates and not ceremonial coronations of preselected candidates.
"Compare that to the SNP: they only had one declared candidate and they had a coronation, not a contest".
Here, then, was a chance to give a candidate from the left a coronation.
American political conventions used to choose presidential candidates, but now they are televised coronations.
Trump's four-day coronation as the party candidate degenerated into chaos as rival factions shouted and jeered attempting to drown one another out.
The Labour MSP Elaine Smith welcomed Findlay's candidacy, saying a "coronation" of a Westminster candidate "would not have been in anyone's interests".
The Bush camp fears the Guantanamo procedures may be condemned as illegal, which would be a painful political blow just before his coronation as Republican presidential candidate.
A block of unnamed MPs are poised to demand his resignation, according to party sources, paving the way for the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, a possible "unity candidate", to take over in a "coronation" before next year's general election.
Not so long ago, Hillary Clinton supporters' main concern seemed to be a fear that her coronation as the Democratic candidate for president would leave her unprepared for battle with the Republican nominee.
