To all the Dems out there who are sick of President Obama, I think I get it.

[Dragonfli]

25. I appreciate your position, most of us "purists" (that is a rather poor term to use by the way)

Are well aware of the bad place we are in, our response (I can not speak for everyone, but by many separate admissions) is that we will vote for the lesser of two evils.

Manny spoke well for my position and perhaps others labeled incorrectly as purists, (the correct term is Democrats that follow Democratic ideas rather than 90's Republican ones, or adopted Bush war crime ones).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=699596

We have been voting for them for years now but are beginning to realize that they will go further right, further evil, every year because they know we will vote for them anyway and there is campaign cash in doing the wrong thing.

At what point must they earn the votes of Democrats by being Democrats? That is what we want to know now.
It was easier before when it was only about our politicians adopting GOP money policies (Friedman/Chicago school), that was hold your nose time and the harm to the poor began to hurt, now it has gotten to the point where Democrats directly harm us in ways that only Republicans once did and we are supposed to support it.

When Torture, detention without any rights at all, taking from the elderly and giving to the rich (Simpson/Bowles) becomes our platform, the lesser evil becomes a vote to actively harm others with a not so lesser evil.

It will soon be time to stop being a part and party to hurting people.
It will soon be time to revolt against the lot of them that would harm the non-rich citizens or outright kill them if they are brown.

If they don't stop moving so far right, they will only appeal to righties, how soon that happens depends on the inflation of the dime that is the difference.

We want what they campaign on, we want what they promise and put into the platform, we do not want Republican laws passed by "New Democrats".

You realize this will be the last cycle of faith without works before we will expect our votes to be earned, at least for those that do not believe in Republican ideas.

Some "Democrats" have come from the Republican party purges and they like this new direction, those will be the votes that they can count on in future. The policy they put forth will attract such Republicans and turn away Democrats, perhaps that is the long term plan, I simply don't know anymore.