Reply #32: If you choose to be insulted, that's your choice [View All]

[ConservativeDemocrat]

In the realistic vs idealistic debate, many think "realistic" to be the insult - thinking it morally compromised. If you place realism in such high esteem, why do you take issue with me?

Simply listening? Not, say, listening *and changing your party's stand on issues*?

Sometimes it is. Usually it's not. Usually it's just a change in strategy, re-framing issues to be more acceptable, and putting controversy on the back-burner until after the election.

For example, there is no doubt in my mind that Mayor Gavin Newsom was doing the "morally correct" thing in regards to gay marriage. But it was also utterly stupid. First, because Mayors don't have the power to do what he did (the whole thing got overturned - so gays are in no better a position today than they were before). And Second, because he drove millions of cultural conservatives to the polls last election. If he hadn't have done what he did, we'd now be talking about President Elect Kerry.

That's what's so galling about all the uncompromising pie-in-the-sky Democratic idealists. They engage in antics that drive people into the arms of the GOP, and then after the inevitable happens in the next election, pretend that it's all our fault: You DLC losers! Why... if only we'd nominated Dennis Kucinich, he'd have won in a landslide! Yeah right.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community