Reply #84: You don't attack Democrats [View All]

[iconoclastNYC]

He should have pitched his message to disallusioned libertarians. There is enough fodder in the Bush history to make this appeal. Instead he chose to go after the low hanging fruit, disallusioned liberals. And that hurt party unity.

I'm pretty far left, but I know that the way we're goign to get this country headed in the right direction is to get a moderatly liberal populist elected (in the veign of Deans campaign or Edwards campaign) then build on that victory with a slightly more liberal succesor and so on.

This country is not going to lurch into some anti-big business, anti-neoliberal, pro-government far-left wet dream we are dealing with an economic calamity (25% unemployment and starvation in the strets).

So attacking Kerry in the middle of one of the most important camapign in our lifetime is grounds for excommunication, add to that that he took funding from the repugs and he's dead to me.

There are so many things he could have done to advance his views and his agenda and he chose the ones that would get him the most press: attacks on the left's best hope. He's no better then the DLC in my mind.