To all the right-wing anti-Purgies

[JohnnyRingo]

170. You're not trying to "purge" the party....

You're trying to make a case for dividing and purging DU as usual. One barely has to read between the lines this time to see it.

You begin with a completely unfounded assumption that every democrat who lost an election did so because they weren't liberal enough. Working backward from that "fact", you call out everyone who doesn't subscribe to the Manny Goldberg Handbook For Democrats by calling them "right wing". Perhaps it would be helpful if you list every one of your ironclad tenets to which future democratic hopefuls have to adhere for the sake of fitting under your vision of the country's smallest political tent, so people like me will know when we're betraying our country.

My congressman, Ohio's 17th Tim Ryan (D-Niles) just won his seventh term (70%) Tuesday as a moderate Irish Catholic democrat. He's quietly pro 2nd amendment and loudly pro union. He may never wear a rainbow pin on the campaign trail, but I know for a fact he supports marriage equality. He has no logical reason to include it in his stump speech in this conservative working class district. On abortion, he vaguely refers to his Catholic faith as divine guidance, but has never spoken outwardly against it, let alone cast a single vote to restrict it (legal, safe, and rare).

I'll pass it on to him that he's on the Manny Goldberg purge list for replacement by a Dennis Kucinich clone. Maybe he'll hire you on next time as a campaign consultant, but I really doubt it. Still, your arrogant belief that you have your finger on the pulse of the American voter from coast to coast deserves credit just for it's incredible brazenness.

For the record, I'm considered by most as a liberal. I'm a union retired gun owning tolerant democrat who believes in sweeping social programs and a living wage, but if every candidate nationally vowed to fulfill my personal wish list of ideals, we'd have even fewer democrats in office. As Tip O'Neil once said: "All politics is local", and anyone who believes that one size fits all for the democratic party has chronic political myopia.

This past election resulted in more than a few losses for a myriad of reasons, and that can't be fixed by your bumper sticker solution.