Reply #10: This is why Democrats keep losing. [View All]

[Speck Tater]

I knew it wouldn't take long after clinching the nomination before the guy "everybody loved" became the guy everybody hates.

The Democratic party, in a sense, doesn't really even exist. What exists is a very loose coalition of separate, splintered, single issue interest groups. Instead of pulling for our guy to win, they go all postal on anyone who doesn't slavishly adhere to their own take on their special area of interest. To hell with the direction the country as a whole is moving, we've GOT to protect the snail darter. Nothing else matters.

It's time for these narrow minded people to broaden their outlook on life and realize that, as important as their pet issue might be, there are other issues just as important, and many issues even more important. I for one would gladly table humane treatment of laying hens for a while in exchange for a decent national health care plan now. We can always come back to the hens issue later. Not every issue can be THE issue that gets top priority.

Right now, THE issue that has top priority is winning the election. The "center" is called that because that's where most Americans live. And while Obama will be a Democratic president, he will also be president to ALL Americans, and to shun the center is to shun most Americans. That is simply not acceptable for ANY president.