Reply #7: A Coakley loss is a Republican wet dream. [View All]

[Ozymanithrax]

It will result in even less progressive legislation because it will guarantee their filibuster power.

Now, it may convince Democrats that they screwed up, but it will also end their ability to do anything progressive at all, no matter how small and insignificant.

But I am a proud incrementalist who believes that change occurs slowly and in small steps. (The Health Care Bill is the most progressive legislation we have seen since Medicare and Medicaid.) Those who support the Republican centerfold guy as a sort of Western Union strip-o-gram to the Democratic Party that says, "YOU FUCKED UP" do not believe in incrementalism. They want revolution and they want it now, or they take their vote and go home.