Democratic party spinelessness
is costing the party votes and is endangering America, says The Talent Show:
Which brings me back to Mitt. All over the country, so-called moderate Republicans keep getting elected in overtly liberal states, and in every case, they reliably back the position of the right wing which has no connection whatsoever to the wishes of their constituents. I keep asking myself, how many more times are people going to have to be burned by these guys, before they realize that “Moderate” republicans are only moderate because they’re not as consumed by paranoid hatred as their insane religious right compatriots?
And yet, the fault lies with the Democrats. They choose poor candidates, market-tested, passionless sellouts who seem to think that actually, proudly evoking their own principles will somehow backfire. People from the left who vote for so-called moderates aren’t attracted to them because they’re republicans. They’re attracted to them because the candidate in question pretends to share their views on the issues that matter to them, and because the other option is supporting a complete wanker. (See Gray Davis for more details).