Reply #77: Thank you. Each election must be looked at as its own. [View All]

[Neil Lisst]

It is insane to expect Dems in a town of 50,000 in the South to hold the same views as a lifelong resident of NYC or San Francisco.

I suspect that most of those who have all these rules for who is or isn't an acceptable Dem have never actually won an election, or even participated in a winning election at the federal level. You have to run to the constituency, and the constituencies vary greatly.

There is a chronic snobbery among some Dems, who feel their views are the only ones that can be allowed. Party purists who self annoint and appoint themselves the Keepers of Dem Holiness are the same people who cost us elections every two years.