Reply #9: that has NOT been "the line" forever

[frogcycle]

if that is all they are, then the entire concept is moot. They were created SPECIFICALLY to provide a "safety valve" in case "the people" do something not in the party's interest.

And despite all claims of personal grandiosity, just voting in a primary for the first time in one's life does NOT make one a mover and shaker in "the party."

"The party" is an entity with leaders, with self interest. It solicits votes, just as does the other party. The other party uses scams like supposedly opposing abortion to suck people in to give it their votes. It is now suffering from having invited masses of people who do not think in its self interest (capitalist oligarchy) to think they "belong" to it.

Like it or not, the SD's are NOT "bound" to anything. Certainly not to what their home state did. Else Kerry and Kennedy would be supporting Clinton.


As I have stated before, I think they should start acting like leaders, as Richardson, Kerry, and Kennedy have. And as Rendell has. Lurking to see which way the wind blows is not their role. On the other hand, if they are waiting to see which one fucks up teh most so they can support the other, I have to give them credit.