Reply #1: I don't mind moderates... [View All]

as long as they vote with Democrats on issues of accountability, war and for the constitution (and the concept of protecting it).

Thusfar the "moderates" haven't really been "moderates" at all. They've been worried more about preserving their power and maintaining corporate profiteering deals that exempt those corporations from the laws they're breaking in return for political contributions (or in DiFi's case keeping the war funded so her husband's contracting firm gets richer).

I don't need a left wing socialist to make me happy (although it would be nice). I just want someone with principles rooted in preserving civil liberties over political power or someone who values rational foreign policy and human lives over financial contributions and endless war.

The Neo-Cons have moved the political spectrum so far to the right since the 1980s that the moderates you are talking about are actually Republicans.

When those disgusted with the Neo-Cons bolt from the party, they sign up as Democrats, ride the wave of American Liberal sentiment into office and then line up with Bush on the vast majority of the issues.

We have to push the spectrum back to the left and force the "moderates" to hear and value the voice of the American majority (which is far further to the left than Congress is). If we are not able to at least push them most the way back, we are electing Republicans, not Democrats.

This should not be a battle over "should we let _______ win?" Those candidates are neo-conservative lunatics.

This should be about backing candidates that actually support what the majority of America supports or at the very least pressuring the ones we have to realize the political damage they will take if they do not vote for American Principles and against King Bush.

That's not that much to ask, really.

Rp