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139. you want to rant on and on about how bad the Democratic party is

. . . I'm sure there are other places more amenable to Democratic party bashing for you than DU (although, some days . . .).

You're still conflating what you believe about politics and political positions in general with what it takes to defeat republicans in the general election. From that you've concluded that you're some sort of progressive hero and I'm just some subversive tool of the right-wing for daring to point out that if you have no viable candidate, much less another party to advance all of those ideals you claim to believe in, you will watch all of those fine ideals of yours go right down the drain while almost an entire generation suffers under republican rule.

You're criticizing me for wanting to WIN the general election campaign against the republican challenger? It's not progressive integrity to stand by and allow a republican to gain office, it's just plain ignorance to just stand by and watch everything you claim to believe reversed by a republican rule while you hold onto your ideals.

I'm used to politics swallowing up my ideals and spitting them back at me. That's the nature of our national legislature where our ideals are predictably compromised by the myriad of interest and opinion from legislators elected from the many diverse regions of the country.

What I'm not prepared to do is just hand the presidential election over to the opposition party; hand everything that I fight for over to a republican president to manage. What happens to all of your fine principals then? (and don't try and sell the crap that the parties are the same. I'm not buying it)


Still nothing at all from you about taking responsibility for the advancement of a republican candidate in the absence of your support for a Democratic nominee. It's like you believe that just because you are intransigent in the general election that the nation would follow suit.

I know the throwback argument . . .the parties are both the same' . . . spare me.