Reply #37: The Insane at Work in the Dem Party

[ErinGoBraghLess]

Seems there is a battle for the hearts and minds of DU. Maybe a civil war. There is a substantial faction here at DU that apparently believes that it is an absolute physical impossibility that Kerry lost this election. Therefore, the only other possibility is that Bush and Rove and Diebold stole it. It's the only theory that their brains can allow once they start with the presumption that Kerry must have won.

The other side of the coin (and the side to which I belong) is that Kerry lost, Bush won, and that it is time we focus on what we really want to accomplish in the Dem Party. What do we stand for? What can we offer the American people? How can we get our message out? If we just jump up and down, red-faced and screaming, no one will listen to us and no one will take us seriously. Personally, I have little patience for those who would rather whine and bitch instead of actually thinking constructively about ways to improve the party.

I am willing to state on the record that Bush won the election. If you refuse to accept that, you are essentially saying that the Dem party can continue on the same path and that everything will be OK. That is not the case, folks. We haven't just lost a presidential election. We've lost a number of elections over the past 10 years, and have been out of power for quite a while. It can't all be Diebold's fault, can it?