We, the people, are starting to come together. Talk to your con acquaintances.

[JoePhilly]

35. Neither party is going to do what you describe.

The GOP isn't going to "clean house" in any meaningful way. The crazy red districts will stay crazy and red. And the crazy Republican Senate candidates will struggle to win primaries in anything but very red states. And then they will lose in their General. The Dems should be able to hold the Senate, and make some in-roads in the House, although taking it back will be tough given the gerrymandering. Crazy red will stay crazy red until it dies of old age.

On the Democratic side ... for all the screaming about the evil DLC, those screaming don't seem to have much of an alternative group of candidates to put forward. Take NC ... the DLC helped Kay Hagen beat Dole. Are you telling me the left in NC is going to primary Kagen and get a more liberal Dem into that seat? I doubt that.

The angry part of the left struggles to maintain any sort of focus. Their outrage jumps from topic to topic with such speed that any momentum gathered at any time dissipates as they argue about which issue is the one to protest and focus on today.

Have you ever noticed that no matter what issue the President is dealing with now, its not the right one for many on the left. They immediately jump to something else that's MORE important ... only to shift again a few short weeks later to something else.

The real problem you have is that you see the two parties as exactly the same. And so, fighting against one is fighting both.

The vast majority of Americans actually see two distinct parties. Because there are two distinct parties.

The case you are trying to make is that those Americans should be equally against a blue dog and GOP opponent. But you don't have enough good liberal alternatives to really push that anywhere. Yet you expect people to be concerned about the difference between a non-existent alternative candidate and the actual Dem candidate ... rather than the difference between the actual existing Dem candidate and the actual GOP candidate.

If the left is actually going to purge the party of the impure dems ... its going to need to start putting forward A LOT MORE alternative primary candidates that actually exist. The endless carping is insufficient.

I'm not sure what your "bog" point is all about. "Somebody endorsed some site or they should have or not because Obama in the last cycle said or did something .... " ... see ... this is what I'm talking about ... FOCUS.