This kind of thinking is why we've had little national Democratic success in the last twenty-odd years. If you think Carter was a fluke, and Clinton's second term was a happy accident, you're missing the actual politics part of politics.
This is the kind of thinking: "we should be more like Republicans, because they win."
But Democrats can't win by being Republicans. Republicans have a lock on being Republicans.
And I think the thing I'm looking at is not the difference between being left and being right -- I'd be delighted if that was the difference I was offered, now and then -- but the difference between being anything honest and being whatever the market seems to be asking for.
As ambitious and calculating and self-promoting as Hillary is, I don't think she'll withhold a thing from the Democratic Party even if she doesn't get the nomination. I think she'll do what it takes to win.
I'm not a particular fan of Obama at this stage. I'm still hoping for a candidate I can embrace wholeheartedly, at least for the primary. And in the primary I will vote for whoever really says and does what a Democratic candidate should say and do. In the November election, I'll vote for the Democrat.
I've only been a party-line voter since 2000 (I voted for Clinton both times, but not as a party-line voter). Hell, I haven't been a Democrat much longer than that. I was Peace and Freedom for a long while.
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This is the kind of thinking: "we should be more like Republicans, because they win."
But Democrats can't win by being Republicans. Republicans have a lock on being Republicans.
And I think the thing I'm looking at is not the difference between being left and being right -- I'd be delighted if that was the difference I was offered, now and then -- but the difference between being anything honest and being whatever the market seems to be asking for.
As ambitious and calculating and self-promoting as Hillary is, I don't think she'll withhold a thing from the Democratic Party even if she doesn't get the nomination. I think she'll do what it takes to win.
I'm not a particular fan of Obama at this stage. I'm still hoping for a candidate I can embrace wholeheartedly, at least for the primary. And in the primary I will vote for whoever really says and does what a Democratic candidate should say and do. In the November election, I'll vote for the Democrat.
I've only been a party-line voter since 2000 (I voted for Clinton both times, but not as a party-line voter). Hell, I haven't been a Democrat much longer than that. I was Peace and Freedom for a long while.