Reply #18: Right on cue... [View All]

[TreasonousBastard]

bash the DLC and us for eating our own.

The 8% of Democrats who like Bush are a lost cause and show up in every election to some degree. Rumor has it there were some Republicans who actually voted against Reagan! These things happen.

Nadir, however, adds something new-- someone else for disgruntled Democrats to vote for, and that 8% of his may or may not be realistic, and I doubt is is, but some of it is definitely sucking votes away from Kerry that need not be sucked away.

That evil DLC, of course, managed to get us a President elected three times in a row, although the last was stolen from us. This is something that progressive Democrats haven't been able to do since the FDR-Truman years. After the TR debacles and Wilson, it looked like we'd never get a Democratic President again and it was the Depresssion that finally got us back in.

But then, progressives really kicked ass running against Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush I, didn't they? We beat up Goldwater, but then look what happened.

There's that half a loaf thing.