Reply #60: "yellow line and dead possums"

[Deep13]

Nice aphorism, but it doesn't have much to do with governance. Simply following a political philosophy without looking at the evidence will get you squished every time.

I fully agree that we must represent our Democratic constituency and not try to take a middle path. The question is who are our constitutencies? Here in the Mid-West they are largely church-going wage earners. They believe in America, shop at Walmart, own guns, drive passenger trucks, don't use foul language, believe the police and know more about football than they do about state politics. For the most part, they do not include liberal activists (like me) who espouse flashy social causes.