Reply #29: No election should boil down to one issue. [View All]

[CHestonsucks]

If Sheehan has an issue with Dems that support the war, she should say so and speak clearly. I couldn't blame a mother that gave her son's life for something she never believed was right. This seems like the true Hell on earth, to sacrafice a child on the altar of the current administration's troglodyte approach to foreign policy, and I use the term most guardedly.

Since I'm from a blue state, the one right next to idiot Liebermann's in fact, I don't expect my representatives at the federal level to make an issue of Cindy Sheehan, not when the real culprits are Bush and his awful cronies.

Politicians, bless their timid little hearts, are afraid above all of Controversy. Principled stands on any issue always seem to fail in the face of non-stop propaganda, just the sort of "cultural issue" politics that have allowed Republicans to acquire a disproportionate number of seats in the Congress, not to mention win elections, since 2000. I'm not discounting fraud, viz Tom DeLay, either.

Politics is the art of the possible and a principled politician will win when a majority of the voters place true value on principle rather than sucking up propaganda.