Feinstein won't be beaten in the primary...but there's a good chance THIS could happen:

[Ken Burch]

40. What matters is that I don't say anything about Democratic politicians

that could be taken as an attack NOW. I've made a clear break from anything along that line.

I completely changed my approach on that after Philly, and did so voluntarily.

It's been fourteen months since Philly. The things I said that you can't let go of are in the dead past.

I had actually forgotten I'd even mentioned Kamala Harris when that was brought up. I shouldn't have said those things(we're talking about a tiny handful of comments, for Goddess' sakes), in hindsight, but it was in the heat of the moment, in the kind of situation where people often say heated things and it did no actual harm. I didn't lie about saying it-it honestly just slipped my mind that I had. Does anybody else remember every single word they ever posted here?

Can you just accept that we're done with that one?

As to "asking the same question over and over", as you call it:

The question I'm really asking is...what is it about what I post that makes you feel that you have to try to disparage and discredit me and others on a personal level? And why do you do that to other people here whose only crime is to disagree with you on ideas?

Why don't you work on the assumption that everybody posting here, so long as they aren't abusive, confrontational douchegeysers, is entitled to a least a baseline level of human respect?

In essentially every exchange I've seen you get into with anyone you disagree with, you've gone for the jugular with people, not on the ideas those people were discussion, but on a personal level.

It doesn't sound like you're interested in discussion; instead, you just want to browbeat everybody into deferring to you, to the particular candidates you prefer, and to your notion of the limits of what is politically possible and permissible as discussion.

I would welcome an actual debate on the merits of the issues with you, but that involves the participants treating each other with civility and accept that each honest and transparent and of honorable intent.

It sounds as if you feel that agreeing to treat people like that here would be an intolerable burden.

If nothing else, could you please accept that it isn't YOUR place to try to shut down any discussion that happens to move to even minutely to the left of what you support? It's not as though it harms anything for ideas more liberal or even radical than the ones you support to simply be posted here.