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In reply to the discussion: The Dems have only themselves to blame for the proliferation of Republicanoid zombies [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)I was in an anti-war march officially counted at 30,000 people.
And it IS the fault of the Dems that they voted for the Iraq War Resolution--"because it was going to pass anyway," the typical DLC excuse of that era. The one Dem who was up for re-election who voted against it was Paul Wellstone--and his poll numbers went UP after this became known.
One of my fellow Minnesota DUers attended a Wellstone fundraiser immediately after the vote and talked to Sheila Wellstone, who said that the Establishment types had warned Paul that the voters would reject him if he voted against the IWR. He was even afraid it was true, because everyone inside the Beltway was saying that the American people supported the Iraq War, but he voted against it anyway, because it was the right thing to do.
Imagine, he voted his conscience even if it meant that the voters might reject him.
There's not enough of that in Washington, and it was especially true among Democrats during the Bush administration.