Reply #109: I think you are wrong. I think that if this bill passes without [View All]

[sabrina 1]

a public option, when there is absolutely no excuse anymore not to include it in the Reconciliation bill, the Democratic Party will lose its base. The base is what helps a party win or lose.

That is what happened to Republicans. Once they lost their base, they were finished. And I know exactly how and when that process began. Like the Dem Party Loyalists, Bush loyalists were rabid supporters of him and of his policies. We could see the lies, but they were blind.

I remember people saying that he could murder a puppy on national tv and they would still support him.

But that turned out not to be the case. There is one thing a politician cannot get away with, and that is betrayal of the principles that attracted the base in the first place. The Republican Party began to lose their base after the Dubai Ports debacle. I was watching rightwing boards at that time. They could not believe that the man they believed hated the Muslim and Arab world as much as they did, had been lying to them.

I remember showing them photos of Bush and his Saudi friends but they refused to look and on rightwing boards those photos were banned. That's how willfully blind they were. But that deal split the base and some of them woke up and realized they had been fooled. Half of FR left or were banned and formed their own sites. Disgust with the party in general was rampant and the people who helped Republicans win, dropped out and did noting in the next election. The fallout from that discovery prevented the usual blind defense of Congressmembers who got in trouble and they lost their majority in 2006.

We were lied to. That is obvious now and for many people this is the last straw. The enthusism of the last election is gone and unless there is something in the bill that represents the base of the party, the proof of the betrayal will be clear. Reconciliation, no need for 60 votes, no Republicans involved. They have run out of excuses and we have run out of patience.