On liberal "purity".

[Skidmore]

50. I bow to your superiority.

You have truly made a decision that you can label with impunity, without personal knowledge of the commitment of others, and who have also done considerable grunt work to move the ball down the field. I truly don't understand why you think that you are somehow more in tune when essentially we agree on almost everything. I've learned in life that sometimes you pick your battle and live to fight another day. We are moving forward in spite of all of the opposition--whether you choose to believe it or not. We've survived the Bush years and we'll survive the era of the Koch brothers. I'd rather expend my efforts on dealing change within my own community. We turned this county blue in 2008 and it stayed blue. It was hard work and still bears fruit. A lot of that work was not done by being confrontational all of the time. Rather, many hours of conversations with others, sometimes over coffee or sometimes on the aisle at the grocery store or in the post office, and we moved people to consider alternatives to some fairly well entrenched biases.