Reply #10: Here's my problem with all this [View All]

[Montauk6]

Gore got the popular vote. Kerry, demonstrably farther left than Al, MAY have done likewise; but even if he didn't, he still pulled in MORE votes than any other presidential candidate in US history, except for Bush (and that's only if Bush's totals are real).

In 2000 and 2004, the prez races had very questionable circumstances surrounding the voting.

Yet, YET what is it we hear from the DLC, time and time again? We're out of touch, we're too far too the left, progressive politics aren't realistic. Always this so-called need to put on a centrist smile and sweep all remnants of a great liberal tradition under the rug (in which case, the question is begged, who's abandoning whom?)

So the bottom line is: fight tooth-and-nail for some honest voting and THEN figure out if the party is too left or tight.