Reply #47: Wait a minute!

[Adjoran]

This stuff really needs to stop.

"IF so and so wins the nomination, I'm staying home. Let Bush win, I don't care. I don't care about the party, I don't care about the country, I'm staying home."

Yeah, that's productive and helpful, all right.

Think about it for a minute. Lieberman has about 10% nationally, maybe a bit more. If those 10% of Democrats tune in to what is being said here, is it unreasonable for them to say, "Oh yeah? Well if your guy wins, then I'M staying home!"

This election is going to be close, just as close as the last one. So if you are willing to go ahead and blow off Democrats with whom you disagree, you may as well send a check to Dubya for his 2nd Inaugural Ball, because we can't afford to lose ANYBODY.

Politics isn't some utopian fantasy, it's the real world. We don't always get what we want. People need to grow up and face the fact that they NEED to support the nominee, not just if they "like" him and his positions. If Lieberman or anybody else wins a majority of delegates, that means they have the support of the party. If you support the party, you will support the nominee. Or you support Bush.