Reply #50: But the voters are indeed responsible, and you make no sense.

[CBHagman]

For the thousandth time, you are describing a course of action that virtually guarantees you will have no voice in the Senate.

If you cannot elect the candidate of your choice and indeed split the moderate and liberal votes, you cannot make policy. End of story. You can rail against other candidates till the cows come home, but you've squandered what power you do have.

Don't kid yourself, leftstreet. The country isn't 55 percent self-described liberal and progressive. You have to ally with moderates, including pro-environment and social liberal Republicans, to win on the issues.

Ralph Nader, for instance, hasn't been elected to anything that I know of, and thus he has no active hand in making policy. Moreover, he hasn't thrown his weight behind a particular issue or created alliances that would bring about the actions he supposedly wants. That's just ineffectual and self-deluding.