Reply #39: Well, yeah, I guess he's not that young... [View All]

[Telly Savalas]

but he's pretty darn liberal and he keeps getting elected in a very red state.

I appreciate the fact that we can't demand ideological purity, and that we need to reach out and build coalitions. Nevertheless I'm baffled as to why we need to compromise the fundamental New Deal values of the Democratic Party. If 70,000 people in Ohio who voted for Bush would have voted for Kerry instead, then we would have elected a "latte liberal" Senator from Massachusettes to the presidency.