Reply #15: Running away from the national party

[sandnsea]

That's what they do and like I've said, DeFazio does it too, although he'd never trash a Dem in the process. That's why I think the 50 state strategy is kind of stupid, at least without some sort of unity strategy. We can't have these rural Dems continuing to trash the national platform, and the national platform is not going to change because too many of us blue state voters will pitch a fit. I think we've compromised about as far as we can go on abortion, birth control, gay rights, minority rights, environment. We've just got no give left to give. That 50 state strategy is going to have to include some bridge building with the recognition from those rural states that there won't be a national party without us blue states.