Obama less popular on DU than war-making

[Ikonoklast]

62. And did you ever really wonder why that is?

The more diverse your electorate is, the less you can run as an idealogue, from either side. If you want to get elected, and try to accomplish any good, you have to play to everyone that might pull a lever for you.

If you do, you DO NOT win. It is actually just that simple.

So many people fail to understand that simple reality; they forget that not every voter thinks just like they do.

Like you as a voter (and I am not picking on you) and your own strongly held personal political beliefs, you have a polar opposite who holds the opposite political beliefs just as strongly. As a zero-sum game, both positions are just as valid, though you might not think so.

Those other people get to vote, too. And any politician worth his salt would try to get that other person's vote if he could.

You cannot win elections in a state or district by playing to only one side if the political split is close to 50/50; you must do your best to win a many of those votes as you can and then govern or represent ALL voters in your state district, not just the ones that voted for you.

That's what the Republicans have been doing, they think that once in office they possess a mandate to only represent Republican political points of view, Republican voters, and now look where that is taking them, right off of a cliff.

The Republican governors who immediately tried to ram through their agenda after getting elected forgot about all the voters who *didn't* vote for them, and those people got pissed off, big time, in Wisconsin, in Ohio, Michigan, Florida, feeling totally politically disenfranchised.

They are all doing something about it.

Boehner and Cantor are doing the same thing in the House, I mean, these guys are fucking up in a rather huge way because they are ruling like there is no other political party, ignoring everything else in order to ram through their pro-corporate, pro wealthy, anti-worker agenda.


And yet there are those here who would want Obama to rule the same way, instead of governing every citizen in this country, those to his Left want him to be their version of Bush, ignoring dissident opinion, and just move his own agenda forward.

Look how well governing that way worked out for us in the last eight years.

I do not have much animosity toward many of the stances espoused by Dennis Kucinich, I do not agree with all of them, but he has some valid solutions on many issues where I find common ground with him.

My complaint with him is that he is a flawed candidate, and because of those flaws, his message gets lost. He is far from perfect, but too many here only hear his speeches without really knowing anything at all about the man giving them.

You cannot have one without the other, the stirring words come with along with the flaws.