I actually disagree very strongly with the people who say that anyone to the left of Clinton could never win an election as Democrat. I think that a class war Democrat would demolish the Repugs so thoroughly that they would not be able to show their faces again for a generation. I'm not talking about Dean, who's not particularly left. I mean someone with the spirit of Lyndon Johnson. He'd have to be mean like Lyndon too. The problem is not that he couldn't win, but the Democrats would be afraid to nominate him and win on those terms.
I don't advocate trying to reform the Democratic Party to get them to change their ways; I don't think that will work. I do think that we may be in a real lesser-evil choice this time, where Bushies are an evil that is great enough to justify voting for the Democrat, unless its Lieberman, or possibly Edwards. jks
--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Please, American progressive Left, drop the
> childish habit of
> wish-projecting
> > your own politics onto an alien body, the
> Democratic Party. It will never
> adopt
> > and implement you politics. Never. Even if it
> wanted to.
> >
> > Stop confounding your desire for the lesser evil -
> now burning brighter
> than
> > ever in the face of the "evil" Bush - with that
> for the success of your
> > political program. If you want the Dems to win
> the Presidency, you'd
> better
> > hope they nominate a DLC-approved "centrist"
> opposed to your progressive
> agenda
> > but with a chance in hell of winning, and not
> someone like Dean. Rove is
> > praying for Dean.
>
> > -Brad Mayer
>
> Kerry/Clark. The only true shot for the Dems, if
> that. Two Viet combat vets,
> one a retired NATO General. And even then . . .
>
> DP
>
>
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