After the total and utter abomination of the Cheney/Bush regime, the Democrats had the greatest 'lock' on the Residential election since 1932 (or maybe 1964). They've had a 15-point generic advantage for more than two years. The ONLY way they could lose is to fuck it up and blow it. The MI/FL FUBAR was one of the biggest "hints" ... an all-out, take-no-prisoners struggle inside the party for control. Between the DLC/BlueDog 'centrists' and the 'leftists' (a once-admired label now used as an epithet, even by "Democrats"). The scorched-earth campaign by the Clinton DLC/Corporate 'centrists' is the culmination of a 'Protection Racket' being run for decades.

The 'Protection Racket'?? It's the 1/3 'centrist'/corporatists who threaten to vote GOP against the 2/3 New Dealers and 'leftists' who can merely threaten to NOT vote. Every threat to vote GOP is DOUBLE the threat to not vote (or vote Green). The party has moved so far to the right that the 'Protection Racket' has to be compounded by rampant vitriol and HYPOCRITICAL attacks on those with bruised noses that "no vote is the same as a GOP vote.' That's a UTTER FALSEHOOD - propaganda catapulted by those for whom the threat to vote GOP isn't quite enough anymore since BOTH parties have become Corporatist - good cop vs. bad cop.

Answer me this: If Clinton's "Third Way" were such a 'Good Idea' then why is there no corresponding 'let's all just get along' in the Republican Party?? Why is it about moving FURTHER right even after THREE DECADES of lurching to the right???

And the DAMNED FOOL blind partisans just keep chowing down on the dog turds delivered in Baby Ruth wrappers. (But, they whine, I don't want to be a "purist"!!)

Stupid. Fucking stupid.