Hey, am I going crazy, or is it just me? Are there people on this website seriously threatening to not vote this year in the Ohio senatorial election, just because their primary favorite has dropped out of the race? You people are insane.
Ned Lamont vs. Joe Liebermann pits a independent-leaning leftie against a Fox News Neo-Dem. Sherrod Brown vs. Paul Hackett pits an honest leftie politician against an honest leftie Iraq II vet. There is a HUGE difference. I supported Paul Hackett, but I can differentiate between the lesser of two evils and the lesser of two goods, if you follow.
Perhaps Rahm Emmanuel and a cabal of DLC demon-summoners have forced Hackett out of the race with their phone calls, donation blocks, and voodoo rituals. Ok. Is it worth a DeWine reelection? Is it worth an easy GOP reelection? Hells no!
I figured most of us learned something in the 2000 prez elections, what with Ralph Nader convincing a crucial number of liberal voters that Gore was not very different from Dubya. Typing that last sentence nearly made me cry. THINK ABOUT HOW DIFFERENT THE PAST SIX YEARS WOULD HAVE BEEN IF AL GORE HAD WON IN TWO THOUSAND. Things would be very, very different. Al Gore always seemed, um, intelligent. And willing to learn. And willing to take advice from his predecessor.
Perhaps Al Gore would have even taken to heart and acted upon the specific advice his predecessor, William "The Definition Of Is" Clinton, would have given him upon his taking up the mantle of executive authority. Something along the lines of "Al-Quaeda will be your biggest foreign policy problem," although here I'm terribly misquoting Clinton's advice to Dubya. In any event, maybe with Gore winning the presidency in 2000, we'd have two extra skyscrapers on the NYC skyline, if you catch my extremely overt drift.
Maybe I'm wrong about the number of people who regret voting for Nader in 2000, and maybe we as a party haven't learned our lesson about protest votes, and petulant childish non-voters. If I happen to be wrong, then I hope and pray that all the lefties provin' me wrong get some education quickly! We need a majority in at least one house of congress, and can't take chances.
So, fast-forward to early November...are you on dailykos.com, but not voting for the 2006 Democratic candidate for Senate in Ohio? You've got two choices: a.) get smart and recognize the reality of the situation, or b.) go to hell, where you're trying to send the rest of the left wing, and the country in general.
That is all.