Reply #107: .....

[No Elephants]

"I knew your Bipartisan bullshit was not going to work when you were running but what am I supposed to do, vote for McCain and Brain Dead."

Starting with pre-primary days, you had more options than voting for Obama or voting for McLame. You even had more options on election day.

The conventional wisdom--the "wisdom" that keeps people like you and me frustrated is that Democrats in office can safely ignore the left completely because the left has nowhere else to go. Therefore, Democrats need to skew right to attract right leaning independents and maybe even a few Republicans who are embarrassed by the religious right.


That "wisdom" is what keeps the Democratic Party (and therefore the nation) tacking to the right. That "wisdeom" would become nonsense if the left made its voice heard half as much as the Republican base does. Good ole "Mavericky" McCain changed about 200 of his positions and statements between 2000 and Election Day 2008. He knew he had to or he would never win a primary. How did he know that?

For one thing, the Republican base did not go to sleep between nominating and electing Dummya and the next primary. They stayed involved and made their voices heard loud and clear during the pre-primary months. Now, they even created themselves a separate, loudly vocal Party in practically no time.

Whether it ever actually elects candidates or not, the Tea Party will keep the pressure on Republican politicians to stay true to their base.

To make sure their voices are truly heard--and to keep this country from going even further right than it has--more Democrats need to get more involved at the Party level four years out of four. And as get loud and insistent as any Tea Party-er until classic Democrats start getting nominated again.

While we're at it, we have to convince the DNC to stop supporting incumbents, no matter what. And also to stop leaving primary winners like Connecticut's Lamont twisting slowly in the wind, simply bc Connecticut Democrats preferred Lamont over an incumbent like Traitor Joe.

Finally, we have to work until the Democratic Party drops its highly undemocratic Super Delegate policy and allows Democratic voters to choose the Democratic Presidential nominee again.