Reply #24: If you read my wonkier posts ... [View All]

[Dogmudgeon]

... you will see I am quite a bit more of a party-unity guy than when I jump into a slugfest.

I also have been "calling" the Clinton/Obama ticket for some time now. The GOP cobbled together the same plans early in the fall and the present talk of a McCain/Huckabee ticket is built on that strategy.

DUers are NOT the usual rank-and-file Democrats. This is a rarefied part of the political atmosphere. What matters is how we represent ourselves to the voters and the world. I have never said, and will never say, that I will not vote if my candidate loses. I'd rather open a vein. The only way I'd NOT vote for Barack Obama, for instance, is if he decided he really WAS the messiah. Some of his followers may veer into those shoals, but Obama himself will not.

The real work starts after the primaries. The fighting is mainly a diversion for a bunch of half-crazy Democratic jackasses like myself.

--p!