Reply #24: Choose your battles

[RedCon1]

Your attitude is disturbing to me. I believe that gays have the same rights as everybody else but I also believe in winning elections. We can't win this gay marriage battle and the longer we keep fighting it, the more damage we do to the party. We need to nominate a more moderate Democrat the next time around. I truly believe that Americans want to vote for a Democrat but they can't because of the image that Mr. Clinton spoke of recently. Believe it or not, there are Democrats out there that put a man's right to keep and bear arms above a man's right to marry another man. It's hard to believe for some of you, I know.
The Democratic party has been the party of the working class for the past 60 years. That reality is overshadowed by the perception that we are the anti-second amendment/ pro-homosexuality/welfare/taxation party. Can you see how this works against us? The moderate Democrats must take the primary races away from the radical left or we can expect continued defeats. As our defeats mount, our ability to recover from them will diminish. In time, there will be no recovery and we will all enjoy an extreme right-wing militaristic reality and that is unacceptable. Furthermore, if the extreme left chooses to resist moderation, our division will easily be exploited by the Republicans. Moderation or death, you decide.