How Could Edwards Hope to Be Pure Enough? Remember This Guy?

[mondo joe]

During the Gore - Bush campaigns I remember being told they amounted to the same thing.

I remember Michael Moore's open letter to Gore, saying "I truly believe Nader is closer to how the majority of Americans feel than either you or Bush."

Sure, DU has a big ol' hard on for Al now. But in 2000 he was just another dirty politician, too corrupt and Republicanesque to deserve a Progressive's vote.

Sadly not much of a lesson was learned.

So congratulations on your ability to be so uncompromising that finding fault with Edwards' house and lightbulb choice is more critical to you than finding common ground with other Democrats. You know who you are.

At this point I can only hope the rest of the Democratic party, and the independents, will remember the lessons of 2000.


(And lest you suggest the lesson of 2000 was about vote tampering, remember that the election was close enough that a little tampering could swing it. You want a Democrat to win, he or she has to win big. Of course, that's assuming you want a Democrat to win more than you want to cry about it on your soapbox.)