Reply #476: I have no stomach for these internecine battles

[pinboy3niner]

This is 2010, the mid-term elections, and the President is not running for anything. Disappointment in Obama isn't really relevant to our current electoral battles.

Some will not vote for (or will not cast a vote at all) for some of our Blue Dog dems. In some cases, I can hardly blame them.

But this is an important election, and I'm phone-banking and contributing (more than I can afford) to get our candidates in office and prevent the whackjobs and even the sane-but-wrong RW candidates from winning.

To me, the dichotomy between 'action liberals' and 'movement librals' is merely a distraction. My feet are in both camps, so where's my camp? If I sympathise with the frustrations of gay equality activists and Hispanic civil rights activists, where does that put me?

I'll leave that question for later. Right now, I'm only concerned with electing our dem candidates.