Reply #26: This year, or in general? [View All]

[Shiver]

This year, they want to keep the good candidates, the ones who have a chance of winning, from going in. They know they are going to lose, so they're sending out the circus clowns. They'll be an entertaining diversion, while perhaps some lesser-known Repubs will stump for them or speak at the RNC and bolster their own images. They're saving the serious candidates for 2016, for when they don't have to face an incumbent president.

Also, they've spent thirty years drumming the liberals, the moderates, and even the center-right people from their party. They courted the religious right, which means they courted the racists and the homophobes, pushing aside minorities, homosexuals, and anyone who is pro-gay rights. They've pushed aside so many demographics that what they are left with is... this. Crazies. Loons. Morons.

And people wonder why I don't want our side to follow the same suit. Everyone they've pushed out has come left - or stayed in place while they moved further right. If we start pushing out people who aren't 'left enough', then we become just like they are. Marginalized and struggling to stay relevant.