Reply #19: Respectful disagreement

[DonCoquixote]

"All that talk about how Obama would support them before the election, has gone the way of the talk about a Public Option, or no off-shore drilling.

OK, I won;t deny you there. Yes, Obama does need to go to the left, even if we do have a nasty habit of not supporting Democrats who do.

"teachers are backing the man who actually did risk his affiliation with his own party to go to bat for them"

In all fairness, Crist was being dumped by his party, outright dumped. He knew that he needed to find a lifeboat quick, and the same teachers that he mistreated all those long years as governor were a perfect chance to do so. This was NOT heroism.

' I don't recall too many Democrats standing up against it."

Well, I provided links in an earlier reply, certainly Meek did, and he is the one running.

Now, here is why I make this point. The main reason we are mad at Obama is because he rows way too close to the center. Well, I will not deny that, but keep one thing in mind. We, as voters, send messages to Politicians, and one clear message has been that while we all talk about wanting leftists, we only elect centrists. If Meek is thrown to the wolves, we will send a very clear message that we will reject anybody who we think is not "winnable", and we all know that the MSM only allows centrists to be seen as winnable, thus the fact that Meek is hidden by his own party. If we support someone who, up until such time as the GOP asked him to resign, supported OIl drilling, supported school budget cuts, supported the gay marriage ban Florida enacted, we will play right into the hands of the MSM that say "if someone is not close to the center, we do not support him!" and then we wonder why we get all the triangulation. If we do not send the message that yes, we will support people who are left of center, then we will never get anybody left of the clintons, and we will have ourselves to blame.