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Originally Posted by cliffdweller
Oh I agree, but I'd rather vote for a viable candidate who represents me on MOST OF the issues I feel are MOST important and pressing. I vote for candidates based on the issues, and Democrats tend to be the ones to uphold the same views as I do on issues I find most important. Does this make sense? I hate to throw the baby out with the bathwater, and condemning Democrats to oblivion because they are not as stringent on each and every issue as you would like for them to be seems counter-productive and not very pragmatic. Seriously, who would you have rather seen in the White House: Kerry or Bush? And please be reasonable in your answer; absolutes get us nowhere.
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Of course I'd rather see Kerry. That goes without saying. But I want people to look at the current Democratic party and tell me with a straight face that they're upholding liberal views, principles, and issues. They are not. It's disingenuous to even say anything along the lines of "condemning Democrats to oblivion because they are not as stringent on each and every issue as you would like for them to be seems counter-productive" because the simple fact is that it's not a few things here and there that they're aren't stringent on, it's 99 percent of things. Everything that Bush has done while in office has been done with approval and complicity from the Democrats. To say otherwise is idiotic. So, my question is why people still support that party so ferociously when they simply have no ground to stand on.