Reply #26: Could you show a logical rationale other than demagoguery for this? [View All]

[dpbrown]

Your "46 precincts" statement is unsupportable.

There are more Democrats than Republicans, and there are more progressive Democrats than conservative ones.

Kucinich is the only candidate who can claim anything like a sweep of former Nader voters, therefore he's the only candidate who can go up against Bush needing only former Gore voters to win (although he'll obviously get plenty of former Bush voters as well).

Every other candidate will put the Democrats in a position of having to betray core Democratic Party principles in order to cater to Republican voters.

This is a recipe for the death of the Democratic Party - in fact, that's just about what Dean already did in Vermont - turn the Democratic Party from a powerful force to a pathetic niche party of conservatives posing as "centrists" who somehow fostered the astronomical growth of both the "progressives" and the Republicans until they managed to push the Democrats out of power. Vermont is now governed by a Republican and no elected position ever held by Dean is held by a Democrat today.

This isn't what I want nationally, and no Democrat should want this, either.