Reply #43: With all due respect, it's not up to you to decide [View All]

[LWolf]

what my conversation is about. It's NOT about me; I've never been under any illusion about political parties, or about politics.

If you can't address the actual topic, trying to spin and shift the conversation to me is just not going to work. While I've been a registered Democrat for some years, and have supported many Democrats during my life, my loss is no loss to the party, because I don't represent a significant voting block. I've always known that. It's not about me. As you've already noted, "you can't help me," and "we'll probably never agree on much."

That's ok. I don't really want your help deciding how to make my own political choices, and I don't mind if we disagree. The point of the conversation is that there IS a significant voting segment within the party that is at risk, that they've heard all of the standard talking points you've been repeating to me on this thread over and over, that those talking points don't present anything new or different, and that those talking points aren't going to be effective for 2008.

You've been unable, or unwilling, to step outside the safety of those traditional talking points to address the real problem. I have ideas about what would work, but I don't think my ideas are realistic at this point in time. I was hoping for other ideas. Not new talking points to convince people to vote your way, but an actual direction the party could take to win those voters who are hovering on the edge back into the fold.

I think that's a worthy and appropriate goal for the Democratic Party.