I'm a populist; I'm no longer a Democrat.

[sabrina 1]

97. How do you suggest we change it? Here's an example of what is going on in the Dem Party.

NJ. It is a Blue State. Somehow Christie managed to get himself elected by pretending to be moderate which he never was. He is a Corporatist and an enemy of the Public School System. His handling of Sandy was abysmal among other things, not the least of which he was a known bully.

He posed for photo ops with Obama, anyone able to think for themselves knew he had ulterior motives for doing that. One, to attrack the left leaning Independent vote, and most of all, he wanted to get billions of dollars of funding after the Storm. He was thinking of his run for Republican President.

When he was running the second time, there was a Golden Opportunity for the Dem Party to put in an effort to replace him with a Democrat. It WAS possible.

So, what did the Dem Party do? They decided it wasn't worth fighting for that state. We heard excuses, we never even heard 'is it possible', just 'no, we're not going to put money into that race'. Then we started hearing how wonderful he was, for a Republican.

The Progressive Candidate got ZERO help from her party. A few cursory words from Debbie Wassermann and she was on her own, with not money from the party. And worse, 61 DEMOCRATS Endorsed Christie, the Republican. He boasted about it, making voters wonder how bad must Buono be if the Party was not even mentioning her.

So, here you are telling the OP he doesn't belong on this forum because his party has left him. He is not alone.

How do you change the party when they party itself is endorsing REPUBLICANS? Buono was a great candidate, I got nothing in the mail asking me to support her. I've had requests to support Blue Dogs though.

So before you go jumping all over this OP, and before anyone tells him he doesn't belong here if he doesn't want to vote for Dems anymore, ASK THE PARTY why don't THEY vote for Democrats, why don't THEY appoint DEMOCRATS to the Cabinet.

And that is not the first time the Party endorsed as Republican. So it's kind of lost its impact to be yelling at voters who WANTED Democrats, for finally giving up after watching these kinds of antics now for years.