“We have the ability to absorb and be unified with people on the far left and center right

sorry Debbie, that trick never had much pull, and it has less and less now that billionaires do not even have to show their faces behind the PACS. It is one thing to say you are a "big tent" party, but when certain people in the tent kicksout many who helped build it with our labor, votes and donations, what good is the size of the tent. The people hiding behind big money donations do NOT want a big tent to allow more people in, the Pete Petersons, The Lynn Rothschilds, the Erskine Bowles, the Rahm Emmanuels, and oh yes, you Debbie, whose outright support of Florida Republicans would get you a Pizza on DU have made it very clear that the big tent is so that the donors can fit their egos in, and that your goal is to shove us into a corner where we could be ignored and smothered (when our Social Security is cut off.)

It is one thing to have that big tent, but not when you are willing to throw out longtime residents so you can stuff it with a rich former GOP who is only trying to seek shelter from the flood they unleashed. Never mind the fact that these people you keep calling friends, the ones you reach across the aisle to work with, are merely waiting to grab you so that they can hang you from the same tree as those you back stabbed, because they really hate you just as much as they hate us.