Reply #67: I always felt that Clinton wasn't a Democrat.

[Ken Burch]

That's why I spent ten years in the Green Party. Why on Earth should any progressive have stayed a registered Democrat from 1993 to 2001? We were out in the cold, and the policies were indistinguishable from Republicanism.

Remember, this is a man who flew home in the midst of the '92 campaign to be present for the murder of a mentally retarded black man. This is the man who sent the Haitian refugees home to be tortured by the Tonton Macoute(an act that was of no political benefit to the Democratic Party whatsoever.)
This is the man who sold out gay people who were serving their country in the military, when the majority of the American people supported lifting the ban. This is the man who signed Rush Limbaugh's wet dream of a welfare bill. This is the man who let the Republicans completely control the political debate even in '93, when there was a Democratic Congress and he had a mandate for liberal policies.

And no one in the party other than Paul Wellstone stood up to him on anything.

I was never a defender of Slick. And Slick wasn't a Democratic president. We'd have lost nothing if he'd been impeached or even if he'd lost to Dole in 1996. No policies would have been changed by either event.

Get where I'm coming from yet?