Reply #13: If you agreed with her

[sandnsea]

And there is the problem with the Democratic Party. Little tiny groups of people who think their pet issue is the one that needs to be changed for the benefit of the party. Standing around pointing our fingers at each other. What's really stupid about it, is that changing a position on a particular issue isn't going to work anyway. Just how dumb to you think rural people are? They might, might, believe a local Dem if he says he's not going to bother with guns. Like Schweitzer. But the second you bring in a national candidate, forget it and I don't care who they are. Same goes with any other issue. You think a fundie is ever going to believe Hillary has changed her position on abortion, no matter how many times she says God and tries to change the subject to pregnancy prevention? Just get accused of more pandering, which they can lump right onto the pandering charges of the past.

Howard is right in that you have to believe in what you stand for. Part of that has been a concern about gun violence in the inner cities. If you dump guns, you dump a whole other group of voters who are actually having their kids die. Besides, Dems dump one issue, Republians just come up with another to divide and conquer over. The bottom line is it really does come down to spine, but it's not the D.C. Democrats that lack it. It's the rank and file.