Reply #68: I agree with most of what you say

[Tactical Progressive]

But that doesn't mean that moderating her views won't get her alot more votes than it loses. Especially if progressives don't abandon her for saying things or doing things that they personally don't agree with. If the left holds up, then all she can do is gain votes from those moderations.

Furthermore, as to the broader point you seem to be making, Kerry's poor 'triangluation' for lack of a better term, doesn't invalidate triangulating. Just because somebody throws a bad pass on third-and-long doesn't mean a pass play is a bad move, for a poor sports metaphor.

Whoever we nominate they are going to paint as a commie. That's what fascists do. Maybe we shouldn't nominate anybody, since that criticism is going to be leveled at anybody we do nominate. Give me a name: he's a commie. So give me another name. I don't see how the right's hatreds invalidate anybody, because they hate everybody.