Right now, being progressive means being partisan...

[Wetzelbill]

Movement Conservatism rules the Republican Party, and these guys are so overtly partisan that they never hesitated to gin about faux scandal after faux scandal until they impeached a Democratic president. These guys have politicized everything. It's why we have the type of Supreme Court that we got, and why the Justice Department tried to build cases against Democrats for political reasons leading up to the 2006 mid-terms, and when some Republican prosecutors didn't go along with it they were booted out. It's why we are in an endless war, why our economy is shot to hell, why Don Siegleman went to jail, and on and on and on. These people are as bad as it gets and they have no qualms about wrecking our country for their warped ideology.

The only way to make progress and implement progressive policies is to have a sizable advantage in both Houses of Congress and a Democratic president in the White House.

That means we need to vote for whomever gets the Presidential nomination. No matter what.

And the thing that has disturbed me most over the past month or so has to be people saying they won't vote for the Dem candidate in the GE unless it's their preferred candidate.

Really, there isn't a whole lot of policy difference between the two. Both would be excellent presidents. Certainly better than John McCain. I preferred Kucinich, which probably makes me more Liberal than most Dems and even most people here. There is a lot wider progressive gap between my preferred candidate and either of the two who are left standing. So ideologically, I should be disappointed with the choices. Hell, maybe I should just go and vote for Ralph Nader and sit through another four years of a goofball Republican in the White House. And I bet if I did that I could complain about all sorts of things, like the economy, like the war, oh I'd have a great time pissing and moaning while people all around my country suffered from disastrous policies.

But I won't have to do that. I am a Democrat. I know who the enemy is, and yes, they are the enemy, and their names aren't Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Hillary and Barack are on the good side here. Sure they both have their problems, and I get as sick of the attacks etc as anyone, but in the end, I believe in the good they would each do. Now maybe they wouldn't do enough good, just as you could argue with Bill Clinton's presidency, he certainly could have done more, but the point is, it's a helluva lot better than what the other side brings to the table.

So yeah, I'm a partisan, but I'm a Democratic Party partisan, and when it comes time to vote for president in November, for the sake of our country and the world, I'll be voting for the Democratic nominee.

No matter who it is.

[Lyric]

1. Predicted responses:

94%: Of course I'll support the Democratic nominee.
3%: I'm FAR too special and important to vote for the "greater good". My vote is sacrosanct, and I'll give it to the man in the moon before I give it to (insert Democratic candidate name here).
1%: What do you MEAN there's no real difference?? Obama is MUCH more progressive!!
1%: What do you MEAN there's no real difference?? Clinton is MUCH more electable!!
1%: I like cheese. *drools on self*

Count me in the 94% category. :hi:

[Wetzelbill]

2. I think I switched to the cheese one myself

Because I do like cheese. :)

[Lyric]

4. Mmmm, cheese.

:rofl:

[emanymton]

3. Keeping In Mind Just How Totally Rigged The Game Is, ...

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In a skit by W.C. Fields way back when, a rube asked, "Is this a game of chance?"

"Not the way I play it." was W.C. Fields' response.

This is where the people of USA find themselves; in a game so totally rigged that there is no chance for a true choice (Edwards was my pick). The Democratic wing and the Republican wing of the Corporate Party are squabbling over who will be allowed to say they run the country. Honestly it will not matter for whom the people vote. The establishment (money) will decide.

One can easily see that one's life _may_ not get better when the nominee from the Democratic Party wins the national election in November 2008. One _knows_ one's life will get worse when the nominee from the Republican Party wins the national election in November 2008.

I am liberal. Should there be an election in November, I will not be voting for any member of the GOP.

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Bush lied, people died.
No Amnesty, no pardons no immunity!!
Hold them accountable!

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[dogday]

5. I am a Democrat and that is who I will vote for when the smoke clears

And it will, and somebody will come out the other end of this and we should unite behind that candidate, no matter what.... Hope this can be accomplished....