Reply #84: So who is the base? Why are we quibbling over that? It is a distraction from our goal of winning in

[rhett o rick]

November.

You said: “The problem I have is when any portion of the base claims that its position represents the view shared by the base as a whole and that any position taken that is a moderation of that view is a betrayal.” If you have a problem with someone claiming to speak for the “base”, then please address your response to them, preferably on their thread. If you write an OP please make it clear who you are chastising. You see some here are sensitive because Rahm made it clear that he was targeting “the left”. He has an agenda and my guess is that it isn’t nice. I think he deliberately (the man isn’t an idiot) wants to berate “the left” to mollify the “New-Democrats” that used to be Republicans. He wants to make it clear that Pres Obama isn’t a “lefty”. I know it sounds paranoid, and I will listen to alternate explanations.

If Biden and/or anyone else is accusing someone of “whining” they should provide concrete examples. If people say they are disappointed that we are still killing children in Afghanistan or because we cant seem to do anything about DADT, is that whining?

To me the bottom line is that we desperately need to unify Democrats to defeat Republicans. I see nothing in your OP that is working toward that goal.