Reply #22: Yeah! For career Dem pols, it's not about winning or losing, it's about [View All]

[AirAmFan]

staying in the game, about keeping your corporate pimps happy. They'd rather LOSE in November and keep control of the Democratic Party than WIN and empower insurgent forces like Dean's, Sharpton's, and the new voters Michael Moore and others are bringing in. Too much progressive talk and corporate sugar daddies will drop them. This is exactly what Tom Frank and others have been saying about the Democratic party. Whorish Democratic politicians have abandoned their "kitchen table" appeals to ordinary working people and allowed Republicans to win over working people with the phoney populism of guns, gays, and God.

We're stuck with the current state of the party until Election Day. But then it's time to think about new ways to finance the Democratic Party and Democratic political candidates, more like Dean's support base than like Lieberman's.