Reply #69: That's fine. And I meant no disrepect.

[Dhalgren]

The problem many people have is that being in the "left" part of the Democratic party, is not the same as being a "leftist". Any politcal party will have a "right", "center" and "left" with in that party. The Democratic party is a "Centrist" party, not a "Leftist" party. What I was saying is that the "Leftists" will (by and large) vote for the Democrat in November, because Bush has got to go. But that does not mean that the Democratic party represents the "Left" in this country in any real or meaningful way. I think that somewhere along the line, Democrats started to think that any politics to the left of them were somehow "fringe" - that is not the case.