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[JohnKleeb]

I just hate it when I see calls of purge them from so called progressives, I don't believe in purging, Stalin was a purger, Hitler too, and Trent Lott and the republican leadership too, now I am not saying they are all peas in a pod but purging is anti against everything a progressive believes in. A progressive believes in respecting differing viewpoints, they don't have to agree with it but respecting it is a good thing to do. I hate that everything bad that our party does is blamed on the DLC, for everyone's information, none of our recent senate leaders including Tom Daschle and now Harry Reid have been in the DLC nor have recent house leaders like Dick Gephardt and Nancy Pelosi, in fact the latter is actually a member of Dennis Kucinich and Barbara Lee's Progressive Caucus. Our party ain't perfect but we got a lot of good people with good goals for the party. Calling someone a DINO just because they're not liberal or progressive on one issue is wrong. We know why Jim Jeffords defected from the republican party, its because the republicans in the senate did not respect his views, now I am not calling on us to accept Zell because he actually endorsed Bush but we can and realize we got something in common with more conservative democrats. We also got to realize, it will be a tough challenge to stop Bush's appointments, just because the republicans get them passed will not because the Dems were weak, it will because the republican majority in the senate came through. I will continue to defend Democrats who I feel are wrongfully attacked because people see things in black and white too much. Thanks guys, I really am getting tired of it, I dont wanna lecture but I love the Democratic Party, I am not a member because they're only ones who can beat the republicans, I am a Democrat because my great grandfathers came to this country poor and hungry, and FDR helped them out, this is a party who stands for what is ultimately good for hte people and has a history of it. I wish they were more progressive too but they're even close to the republicans. Sorry again for ranting like a madman.