Reply #72: I Wasn't Advocating Moving to the Right, But it's likely to happen [View All]

[AndyTiedye]

We don't have to factor in a large number of DINO's. Never had to and don't need to now. Pressing them has nothing to do with anything...if they're going to vote Republican then let them....they do anyway....as is evidenced by the 300,000 or so in Florida who put Bush in office. Let's consider the math. 90,000 Florida Democrats voted for a man who represents Democratic principles because of a DLC infestation. 300,000 Florida Democrats voted for Bush in spite of the very pervasive DLC stink.

> How is moving to the right a cure?

because the Bible Belt is very conservative. We would have to sell out everything we
stand for to get those 300,000 DINO votes.

I am agreeing with you that we don't want to go there:

>>The Democratic Party can do nothing about its boll weevil problem
>>without moving even further to the right, which you as a Nader supporter
>>wouldn't like, and neither would I

so we need more votes from the progressive wing.

>> We have to win without them, and
>> Nader made that impossible in 2000

In 2000, they voted for Nader.
We got squeezed and it became Bush*'s election to steal.

Nader seems to be forcing Kerry to the right in search of DINO votes,
by closing off the possibility of many progressive votes.
I hope that this process does not continue.