Reply #4: Good lord, Dean. Could you be any more obsequious?

[Voltaire99]

By pandering Dean is beginning to show his old corporatist milquetoast colors again. It didn't take him long. Apparently, swallowing his short-lived passions in order to flak for the dreadful Kerry took the last fire out of the poor doc.

Sigh. I don't think this tragically handicapped party is capable of getting it any more. Maybe, but unlikely. I've certainly given up all but the most remote hope for it. The disappointment of a neutered Democratic Party is nearly worse than having no choice at all. At least with no choice, one isn't asked to sell his soul for the chance to promote weaklings, hypocrites and charlatans.

Look, I know there are some very well-intentioned souls on this board who'd lop off their right hand if they thought it would make people vote for a Democrat. Gentle readers, keep your right hand. Your foes are not going to come to you simply because you speak an ersatz language of reconciliation ("room for pro-life") and yet promise the opposite (status quo pro-choice positions). Don't you understand yet? They really, really hate abortion. And we really, really want it to be legal. So stop pandering!

That's hypocrisy, and the other side sees through it, and they laugh it you for bending, bending, always bending to their beliefs. So just stop deluding yourselves. Discover some principles, grow a pair, and stand up for what you believe!