Reply #60: I am a Texan and a Dean Democrat [View All]

[NoPasaran]

And I am coming to the state convention as a delegate. I have contributed to Morrison and I find this story very troubling. I sincerely hope that it is not accurate.

Dean's supporters are now organized as Democracy for America. We are anxious to help elect good, progressive candidates and the race to squash DeLay is of great interest to us. But we are not just checkbooks. We have our interests and we will be heard.

Our party is not going to win by running and hiding, by hoping not to piss off the Rethugs. If we do, why should anyone vote for us? Why should anyone vote for a party that is a pale imitation of the Rethugs, and a bunch of yellow-bellied cowards to boot?

We are not going to win by appealing to the white suburban voters who have drunk the GOP tax cut koolaid. We need to appeal to the half of the population that doesn't bother to vote. To do that we need to be different from the rethugs. We need to challenge them everywhere. Not to do so, to run and hide and hope we don't offend anyone is a strategy for our political extinction.

Damn it, we are better than the rethugs. We need to shout that out, not run and hide!