I don't understand liberal Democrats

[demnan]

I understand conservatives - when they have the choice they support a candidate who votes and expresses the same beliefs as they do on issues. They will go out and vote for school board and county council for a conservative Christian candidate on a snowy day.

What I don't understand is this:

"I really agree with Dennis Kucinich on all the issues, but he's too far left to have a chance - so I'll support (insert name here) because I like them and they might have a chance."

It's not just the Congress that caves in on the issues, its the whole goddamned Democratic Party and we its members who do that. We crap out on what we believe in. Over and over I talk to people like that. I don't understand the defeatist attitude our people have. They couldn't get mobilized to demand impeachment, and impeachment is warranted, they can't support someone who won't provide funding for the war, instead they support half-way measures by default. This is wrong! You start at your base - you might have to compromise later, but if Dennis Kucinich could just have the vote in the primaries based on the online polling, we might have a chance to push the agenda in our direction, even if its 20 percent, you know, you guys.

That's how politics works. The right-wing evangelical Republicans understand this, but our side doesn't which is why we will always lose to them based on what we are doing now! They vote with a passion. Where is the passion on our side - who the independents might like?

Some of us are mobilized enough go to DC and march around every couple of months and we accomplish nothing. The Democratic Party laughs at us because, "hey, we don't want to rock the boat now, and put down your silly anti-war and impeachment signs and habeus corpus is not important."

Why is that? Who gets elected? The ones who get elected are the compromise candidates. The ones people felt, "hey, he might have a chance because he's toward the center". Bullshit!

Is that how the Republicans took over the House in 1994? No way, they worked for and elected people they believed in, give them credit for that. Are we so cynical and tired that we can't do the same? Do we believe in the principles of our party, or are we just jerkin' off?

Think on this one, my friends, because the Constitution, our former Republic, the lives of millions of people in the Middle East and perhaps the fate of the world is at stake.