Diane Feinstein announcement

[Ken Burch]

169. This isn't an argument between you and I

I was simply telling you what would need to happen for it to occur in a "top two" primary.

And in the post you responded to there, I agreed that it was unlikely to say the least.

Under "top two", an incumbent would have to insist on staying in the race despite becoming catastrophically unpopular, and not just one but TWO other candidates would have to gain enough support to finish ahead of the incumbent.

I'm not in California politics and it's not up to me as to whether Senator Feinstein would face such a challenge.

Please stop using the phrase "in the real world". It's not cool to imply that people are delusional just because they hold different views and a different sense of the possible than you do-and nobody who posts on this board deserves to be accused of being out of touch with reality simply because they disagree with you and don't defer to you. Using that phrase, over and over again, as you do against lots of people here, reduces the effectiveness of all of your posts-it makes it look as though you can't defend your positions on the merits of the issue in play and therefore have no alternative but to bully, badger and namecall your opponents into silence. I'm sure you're a better person than that in real life, I'm equally sure that no one who disagrees with you here lives on any world other than the real one we ALL share, and I'm surest of all that your use of that phrase has never won an argument for you here OR silenced any one you disagreed with.

Move on. Be the better person you truly are. "Be like Keith", as Nurse Jackie says.

Your use of that phrase will never make anyone to your left on DU stop posting here OR discredit anything any of us have to say.

It's a real world, it's a BIG real world, and your way of looking at this big, beautiful really real world has never been the only real way.