Reply #29: Is any Democrat better?

[Savannah Progressive]

If our party lost it's collective mind, and somehow nominated someone like Zell Miller, who represents the ideals of the enemy, I don't think that would be better than any Repugnican. In essence, all you would be getting is a Bushie with a "D" after his or her name.

We need a Howard Dean, who was doing great in polling, until the Press destroyed him by declaring him "unelectable" just before Iowa. We had a candidate who truly represented our ideals, our passions, and we tossed him aside, and allowed the Faux News and Rev. Moon's propaganda arm define who our candidate should be by what they feel "electable" is. We picked up the slogan "Any Body but Bush" and decided that Kerry was not such a bad guy, and could probably handle the job. The passion was gone though. The only thing that united us was the battle cry ABbB.

While that is fine for us, we forgot that the election is won and lost in many different states, and some of the voters who supported us in the '90's abandoned us. Why is the common question, and the answer is we abandoned our platform. We left the idealism that made the Clinton years the best in history. Unequaled growth, responsible and compassionate legislation. Devotion to ideals.

How many Americans fell for the Repugnic spin that the Government shut down was President Clinton's fault? The far right extremists who also claimed that Hillary murdered her friend Vince Foster are the only ones to believe that hype. A vast majority of Americans saw the Repugs as the reason the Government was shut down, and backed President Clinton's refusal to give up on his principals. We communicated then, we don't now.

We got the public behind the Brady Gun Law, by showing common sense gun regulations work. We saved how many thousands of lives by denying criminals guns, and demanding background checks. We got the public behind so many great ideals, and programs, and now we are reduced to "Any Body but Bush". Our ideals haven't changed, the principals that the Vast Majority believed in haven't changed, the only thing that has changed is how many of our elected leaders are pretending to be Repugnicks.

I know this is a little long, and am sorry. It's just frustrating at times to know that the huge mistake is moving right, and all the while watching more and more of our leaders walk off the cliff after a Repug says that if you do this, you can walk on the invisible bridge. We have lost so many great voices of our party to this "America is Conservative" lie. Tom Daschel was a great majority leader, fair and gentle at the same time. Destroyed by the Rove Spin Machine and slanderous advertising.

If our candidates are Dixie Crats like Miller, we will lose to what ever robot the Bush Cabal puts into office while prepping Jeb for the Bush Trifecta. Hey, they have stolen two elections, why not keep going now that the machinery is in place. If that happens, then in twenty years we will be stuck with the Bush Party Twins in the White House who will probably run on the Progressive Republican platform.