Reply #10: It bothers me a great deal to see that stuff.

[davsand]

Greens may have voted Nader, but so did some of the regular Dems. If they hadn't he would not have had the vote totals he did. Maybe I'll take some hits for this, but I do think that Gore as the Dem candidate just didn't appeal to some of the more liberal Dems. Whatever the reason, it is done and it is in the past.

It wasn't the Greens who made a corrupt SCOTUS vote the way it did. It was the selection process under the previous administrations who loaded that court. For that, we ALL carry some responsibility. Again, I say it is in the past and agonizing over it serves no purpose except to create a division at a time when we can't allow it.

If we hope to make ANY substantive changes in our government, we have got to pull up our socks and work toward selecting a candidate that will play to as many people as possible. I have faith that our primary process can work to do that, if we allow it to.

I have no idea what it will take for some people to feel whole again, but I do know it had better happen soon. We can't afford to go ito this next election with the kind of in-fighting that produced the last failures.

At the risk of sounding cliche--Can't we all just get along? Can't we all just stay focused on the prize of taking back control of our nation and THEN fight out the subtleties of progressive -v- mainstream?

Laura