Reply #32: According to my calculations [View All]

Hillary is a stronger progressive (if you would like to stretch the definition of the word a bit) by a rather large margin (60.7 vs. 39.2). However, I agree with many people on this thread that she has a lot of political liabilities AND her ascendency reinforces the DLCs influence in party politics AND reinforces the tendency in recent American politics for us to try to form political dynasties.

Feinstein is rather conservative, being the only non-DLCer I have in the bottom ten Democrats progressive-wise. Her policies would not be to the liking of many on this board (about 80% of us, I would say). To be honest, she is only one Senator better than Leiberman (35%) on my personal scale (I calculate these things every wuarter and post it here, not that anyone cares).

I only wanted to reply to MrSlayer's post to give a shout-out to a fellow death/thrash metal fan (I heard a rumor you were, btw). The rest of the post is supposed to be a stand-alone. I would choose neither, either, because I am not into false dichotomies.