Reply #18: No thanks. Kerry is the best candidate, and it's not my job to tailor [View All]

my vote to please the smallest percentage of the Party. There's nothing wrong with your advocating and voting for your candidate of choice in the primary, but don't tell me I have to vote for YOUR preference or you will become alienated and pick up your marbles and find a different game. Emotional extortion and blackmail head games don't work.

The far left, or left fringe, are only as relevant as the other competing minorities; Women, Blacks, Hispanics, GLBTs, labor, Native Americans, moderates, environmentalists, southerner's, northeastern liberals, and other minorities. The rest of us must compromise, we never get everything we want, but we persevere and we stay together for the common good. We don't threaten to take our votes to another Party.

The few percent on the fringe simply cannot expect to dictate the agenda to the majority. Their small numbers do not warrant that kind of leverage.

Having said that, Kerry has one of the MOST liberal records in the Senate. Perhaps it's the left fringe who are not willing to do any compromising. Perhaps some people are just impossible to please no matter what

Oh, and I am a progressive, and so is Kerry. The term does not the refer the left fringe exclusively.