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In reply to the discussion: How do you react when I knock your door after dark with election materials in hand? [View all]Hekate
(91,650 posts)... I will thank you for being the door to door volunteer I no longer am. I will take your literature unless I have already picked it up from the Dem card table at the farmer's market. If it turns out that you are the actual candidate I will ask a few pertinent questions, see if we know the same people, but not hold you up. I will try to lift your spirits.
Look, we had a thread not so long ago where a couple of people let it be known that they went out of their way to give all precinct walkers sheer hell. The lowliest signature gatherers were to be grilled over a slow fire on the front porch.
I'm a Dem. I want Dems to win. During the primary campaign I want to distinguish among people competing for the same office, but during the general election I want to know one thing: Is the candidate a Democrat? If they want to be a Green fine, as long as they register as and run as a Democrat. In the case of Democratic incumbents, if someone wants to primary them that person better walk on water and have a better reason than "I didn't get my pony last time." The incumbent Dem the challenger wants to unseat better be corrupt past hope and/or visibly senile, because I sure as hell don't want to risk an otherwise safe seat and all the seniority that goes with it.
I am getting old and cranky as hell, and I have no patience left for people who want to suppress the vote, split the party, toss Blue Dogs out of Red districts, and otherwise cause the Democratic Party to continue to be a minority in the US House of Representatives and lose more governorships to outright fascists. We can work with Green Dems on common ground; we can work with Blue Dogs who contribute to our having a majority, which means we get to choose the Speaker of the House; we can work with just about anybody with a D after their name, but we can't work with the lunatic fringe of the GOP or the radical right wing of the GOP. Republican centrists and pragmatists and those who know the art of compromise are hiding under a rock these days, hiding from the monsters they created or ignored too long. I will not stand for risking the GOP gaining more power just so some on the left can feel self-righteous and pure. Stand with us and help or get out of the way.
>ahem< >cough<
Have a nice day! (because we seem to get our precinct walkers mostly during the day on weekends, not at night)
Hekate