Reply #85: That's the percentage they've voted with the Democratic Party on bills. [View All]

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Now, to be fair, there were some in that list with a significantly lower voting percentage than that (for example, Bobby Bright of Alabama), and for those you can make an argument that they are DINOs.

But if you look at the voting records of many of those representatives on that list, you'll find they are not DINOs but rather good, solid Democrats who just so happened to vote on a single bill pertaining to a single issue that many here may feel differently on. But there's an absolute perverse mob mentality thinking that because of this single issue those representatives are secret Republican infiltrators bent on destroying the party from within, when that's just simply not true.

And I'm telling you now, if people are stupid enough to try to recruit primary candidates to challenge these representatives, and as a result it either fractures the party in that district or results in a weak candidate that the Republicans can trounce, we are totally cutting off our noses to spite our faces. And as a result, we'll lose representatives in Congress who can almost always produce a dependable Democratic vote.