Reply #16: There is always going to be someone more radical than the next person

[Tom Rinaldo]

There certainly are political parties more radical than the Democrats so sometimes I wonder why some people choose to play inside the Democratic Party if they want nothing to do with 1/4, or 1/3, or 1/2, or 2/3's of it's membership, depending on how pure they want the Party to be. I know why I am here. I want to get some things accomplished.

I fully support what Dean is trying to do with the DNC and I am realistic about how much he can accomplish quickly without tearing much of the Party apart in the process, which would only be self defeating.

But this is an opinionated bulletin board. There is no way that DU members would have sat still for a board rule that said we could not be critical of the DNC when Terry McAuliffe was DNC Chair, so it is hard to figure out how a rule could exist that would outlaw it now because Howard Dean is DNC Chair. I think we just have to make the case for supporting Dean.