Reply #68: This smells sort of like the endorsements that Barbara Boxer was asking us to support...

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... before the last election. I think when she got to the point of supporting folks like Lieberman that's where people drew the line and said she was going too far.

You could sense that the Democratic Leadership was in effect USING her progressive credentials to help them get support for those that didn't have progressive credentials, probably in exchange for certain critical committee votes/assignments, etc.

There's some horse trading, etc. that I can tolerate so that the higher progressive purposes can be achieved. But just like people drew the line on her endorsement to support Lieberman, I think we need to call out Feingold on this one too!