When being a "good Democrat" makes one a stooge for conservatives

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9. Being a Democrat, good or otherwise, has nothing to do with this.

Let's stop trying to slide the discussion of this incident (which by the way, is not the biggest topic anywhere but here, at the Guardian, at firedoglake, and the Ron Paul sites) into some commentary on domestic American political beliefs. This litmus test stuff is authoritarian and offensive.

PS: If you recall, it was the Liberal Democratic Party in Britain (an amalgam of the former Liberal and Social Democratic Parties) that formed a coalition with the Conservatives, with their leader, Nick Clegg becoming Deputy Prime Minister to David Cameron, and other Liberal Democrats as Cabinet members and ministers. In other words, the Liberal Democrats form a central part of the current Conservative Government, which would not be in power without them.

PSS: If you don't want people to be good Democrats what do you want them to be? Good Libertarians I suppose?