Reply #14: Please see post #8 for some common sense on this issue.

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It's often useful to be reminded of the real world in which other people live. Nice antidote to the mindless purism that would have us believe that victory lies in running liberal candidates in districts where they have no hope of winning.

Look, we all would like liberal reps from every district. I would also like to win the lottery, wake up tomorrow morning with a 12-inch penis, and lose weight while eating nothing but ice cream and pizza. But those things are not going to happen. There are, believe it or not, places in this country that are very conservative. I live in one of them. I know that if we nominated someone here liberal enough for my tastes he or she would lose 80-20. That's the reality of the situation. But by electing a conservative Democrat, as this district does, we at least have someone who is voting for the Dem leadership and will help us get a majority. Without that majority, as you might have noticed these past few years, we are irrelevant.