Wasn't sure whether to believe the Anonymous/Rove story,until the reaction telling us to shut up @it

[MADem]

287. I am not "comparing" anyone at all. What I am endeavoring to point out is that we are a large party.

Not everyone in the party--like it, or not--is a "liberal" Democrat--and that does NOT make them "the enemy." Some Democrats are moderates. Some are even conservative on a number of issues. Some are "social justice liberal" and "fiscally conservative" Dems--all at the same time. Some Democrats are (gasp) anti-abortion. Others are unwaveringly pro-choice.

It is--as I say, over and over again--A BIG TENT.

I find it irritating when people apply bullshit "purity tests" and demand/insist people believe the very same things that they believe--it's extreme hubris IMO, it's pathological and a bit meglomaniacal. That kind of bullshit SHRINKS a party--it's why the damn GOP are in the shits these days; they've shrunk their party down to a few crabby old white men.

People are different. They prioritize different issues and they have different needs. I may not always agree with every Democrat on every issue, but I don't consider them "evil" or "bad" because they don't agree with me in every way on every issue, and I can understand why people from different regions and with differing perspectives and priorities have differing POVs, even if I take a different view.

Here's my criteria for "A Good Democrat."

If your answer to "Did you vote for Barack Obama/Joe Biden for President?" is yes, and "Did you vote the ticket for your Congressional reps at the state and local level?" is also yes, you're a "Good Democrat."

Not everyone believes as I do--I can live with that. Not everyone has the same priorities that I have. I can deal with that, too.

It's what people do in the voting booth that matters to me.

I am not a fan of Kos, simply because I find the Orange Site difficult to navigate. I don't know what his particular slant is on this issue or that, and I really don't care. I only read stuff that is linked here, I just can't bother to find my way around that forum. That said, if he pushes people to the polls to vote for Democrats, he has a few redeeming qualities in my book. I'm not going to excoriate him and try to paint him, in Limbaugh-Hannity-like fashion, as "The Other" if he shares my goal of putting more Dems in Congress. We need to keep growing our tent, not finding reasons to kick people out of the party--even if we disagree on some things.