Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  >Doug, have you ever supported a candidate who had a chance of winning
>>office?
>
>-I'm thinking of voting for Bloomberg, because I think that any hope
>-for a progressive revival in NYC requires severe injury to the
>-Democratic machine. But otherwise, I'm proud to support only losers!
>
>Yep and that's probably the biggest divide on the left- those who are happy
>losing on principle and those who actually think winning is possible, which
>requires tactics and strategies, not purist litmus tests.
>
>I've often thought that it is the fundamental pessimism of many on the left
>that, having given up on attaining socialism as a real goal, substitute
>maintaining purist tactics as a substitute.  If you can't win at least you
>can lose with pride.
>
>-- Nathan Newman

Why not try to win by sticking to our principles?  Why do you have us 
assume that our principles will never stand a chance of winning?

Yoshie