Voting third party is irredeemably hopeless.

[Douglas Carpenter]

28. we need to remember that most of the public doesn't know about this whole "third way dem" business

We have a mainstream media openly telling the public that there is no choice but to cut Social Security and Medicare and other programs that benefit ordinary working people and the poor. I watched a couple weeks back David Brooks and Mark Shields sit around and agree together that this fight between "the far left" and the far right has to stop. That both sides need to come to their senses and make real significant cuts in "entitlements" and then find some modest ways to increase revenues. The mainstream media is telling people that the only ones who oppose cutting Social Security and Medicare are "the far left." Then we have the likes of Fox News telling people the third way Dem's are a bunch of closet socialist, Marxist and radicals.

For every American who thinks Obama and the Democratic leadership are triangulating third way Dem's who are selling out - I guarantee you there are at least three Americans that think Obama and the Democratic leadership are the most wild eyed leftist radicals in American history. Why wouldn't they think that when the range of media discussion ranges between those who think only extreme leftist don't want to cut programs and "enact entitlement reform" and the Fox News version that claims that even those who do want to cut programs and "enact entitlement reforms" are a bunch of wild eyed socialist?