Open Left

Thank you for this...

And I'm equally sick of the common left-wing response of threatening to vote for a third-party. Yeah, that has proven sooooo effective.

I'm tired of those tantrums as well... I'm glad you are calling out this completely unproductive meme... Right wingers have hated the republicans for the same reason that we hate our own party right now, that the party was too wimpy (yes, right wing activists believed that their party "caved" way too many times to Democrats), but they were never suicidal about it... Oh, they screamed about voting third party, but they pretty much never did.. they knew it would only hurt their cause... it seems that we haven't learned the simple fact that a "progressive party" can't win much if it can only garner 20% of the votes in any given election, but it can sure help the other side win more...  

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!

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by: lord_mike @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 02:32:56 AM CDT