Reply #10: I don't know what all the fuss is about

[SquireJons]

Cantwell may not vote 100% the way you want, but she is hardly a DINO. I'm even reluctant to call Lieberman a DINO because many of his votes are fine. The problem with him is that the times he breaks with his own party really hurts them, and so his negatives outway his positives. But if you consider every senator who voted for the Iraq war and for the two supreme court nominees to be republicans, than there are only a handful of democrats anyways. So much for a two party government. As for myself, I don't see it that way. In my opinion, the democrats should have stood firm against preemptive war (virtually none of them did), but neither Alito or Roberts were unreasonable choices for the supreme court. They wouldn't have been my nominations, but that's why it's more important to win elections than to have ideological purity.

Two things bug me about the democratic party. First, they are (usually) inarticulate and fearful. Second, they are disorganized and way too idealistic. This is the real world we live in, and that means compromise. Many democrats can not curb their appetite for pushing things too far, and so they get nothing, and I'm stuck with a$$holes like bush and cheney. It is much the same way with the gay rights movement. Sure, most reasonable people don't have a problem with gay relationships, but timing is everything. Push to expand your rights when you have the strength to accomplish something. Gay marriage vs. civil unions is a difference in semantics, but the insistence of some to use the term 'marriage' greatly helped elect those who are truly evil. Progressives, democrats, gays, whatever... need to get a grip on reality, cause we're on the brink of disaster here. It's time to unite and fight the bad guys as smart as we can, not shoot dicks off.