It's a shame that Democratic abandonment of anti-war has left the door open to Ron Paul types

[Doctor_J]

116. The 3rd Way Dems, at least among the rank-and-file, are either short sighted or too moonstruck

by Obama to figure out what has happened. I can't blame the president or the Clintons or Fromm, etc. they're getting rich off of the chicanery. But the grunt level Dems are getting clobbered and cheering the guy with the mace.

I would say about half of them (the second group) are just hero-worshippers who believe everything Obama says and cling to every shred of evidence that might just barely exculpate him. The other half believe that by "triangulating" our core beliefs, we will somehow push the Republicans into a position where they're too far to the right to be electable. I am unsure exactly how bad things have to get before they will realize how daft this view really is.

The result is, as you mention, that the pacifists have nowhere to go on election day. I might add that the same is true for those who favor HC for all, those who believe in public schools, those who believe in growing social security, environmentalists, and some other groups who would like some crumbs (not ponies) from the government in general and the Dem party in particular. The president has overseen the death of the party of FDR and LBJ.