Some observations regarding DU vs the majority of the American public [View All]

[MurikanDemocrat]

The DU is a lot more left leaning and activist than the majority of the American public.

The majority of Americans are NOT making IWR and the PATRIOT Act a litmus test for their choice of candidates.

The biggest factor with the public is that they are angry with Bush and they want him the hell out of office. The record turnouts at the primaries have to be keeping Rove awake at nights, because it’s a damned good sign for Democrats.

The people voting in these primaries are not "sheeple"; they are making an informed choice. It's just laughable to say that a couple months ago people were making the “right” choice because they were well informed and politically astute, and that now that the voting has started people are making the “wrong” choice because their IQ’s suddenly all took a nosedive and they are allowing the media to chose for them. What happened is that people did NOT allow the media make their choice for them.

Darn that will of the voters! Don't you just HATE when that happens?

There is no question that Kerry is abundantly qualified to be President, and ridiculous to suggest that there would be no difference between him and Bush. That's just the obnoxious ranting of someone having a tantrum.

And if it makes any non-Kerry supporters feel better, I think a good deal of what we are seeing DOES have a lot to do with electability. But what electability means to the majority of voting Democrats is not the same as what electability means to the more left leaning activist membership of DU. Here electability is stuck in the past with the IWR and the vote for the PATRIOT Act, to name a few examples. For the majority of voting Democrats electability is not dwelling on the anger or staying stuck in the past but MOVING FORWARD and electing someone who can FIX all the mess that this dimwitted neocon sonovabitch and the rest of his criminal cohorts got us in to.

What really frustrates me, if you want to know the truth, is people who insist this election has to be about radically changing the entire Democratic Party overnight. That is just not realistic, and that is not going to happen no matter WHO is in the White House. Not Dean nor Kucinich, nor even frickin Nader would be able to turn the entire Democratic Party on it's head and change it overnight, or even in 4 years time. Things just don't happen on that kind of a timetable.

So, and this undoubtedly won't win me any points with the extreme left here, I really don't have a lot of sympathy for the threats and the tantrums about leaving the party or withholding votes or support if certain people don't get their way in the choice of the Democratic nominee. Because change happens slowly and their expectations are unrealistic.

I don’t get everything I want with ANY Democratic nominee, EVER. And frankly, I resent the emotional extortion and blackmail games played by a small percentage on the furthest left suggesting that the vast majority of the Democratic membership should sacrifice THEIR preferred choices to appease the entire laundry list of the smallest percentage of the Party.

The majority of Democratic voters are simply not going go along with a radical agenda, and the Democratic Party is not going to commit suicide to appeal to the small percent that might go Green and abandon the greater numbers left of center. Logic dictates that's not ever going to happen.

The Democratic Party HAS moved to the right over the past generation. This did not happen overnight and it cannot be remedied overnight. Change is going to have to come slow, by working withIN the party. And that doesn't stand a chance at all if Bush gets another term in office. If Bush makes the next USSC appointments as well as the other judge appointments next term, we are FUCKED for another generation, if not longer. And that’s only ONE of the MANY problems that will get worse if Bush gets another term.

We desperately need to get a Democrat in the White House in 2004. That's the first step.

Thank you. That will be all.