Our enemy threatens to utterly savage the Constitution and the Republic. Not just with the FMA. With a Supreme Court that will authorize a religious plutocracy. By demolishing the treasury. By sacrificing our soldiers and sailors for photo-ops in their uniforms on their ships. Make no mistake. That is what we are fighting. We cannot lose, or we are all doomed - 4 years, with the Congress, will be enough to cripple "the last best hope of earth".
Herseth is on our side in the war. And she doesn't even want to fight the FMA battle, and knows her vote won't matter - this is dead in the Senate. She's picking her fight, trying to get us the red state wins we need - the more, the much, much better - to rescue our country from certain doom. Certain Doom.
Help Fight Certain Doom. Help Herseth, and her misguided and/or coldly, amoraly calculating pro-FMA anti-Bush (non-Zell Miller) dems do their part.
If you were in a foxhole, a real, honest to god foxhole, with another soldier, you'd have their back. It would't matter if they were bigots or not. You'd have their back.
Kos, and the rest, that's where you are now. She is one of ours. Even if she's for FMA, that support poses no realistic threat, compared to the enemy, to the civil rights of gays - which are going to be irreversibly propelled to fulfillment by the President's foolish decision to fight with this weapon. We already know FMA will fail. Herseth's not shooting at you.
She is shooting at the Republican party, a dangerous fight to pick. She's facing the Rove machine and the cash advantage of a red state Republican. She can get mowed down, or she can gut it out and liberate the political representation of an entire state from the GOP. Whether she faces that firepower with an M-16 or an Abrams tank is up to you. Whether she gets body armor (which our current President and Congress are not supplying our brave toops in Iraq) or not is up to you.
Have the last three years not been adequate evidence that we need ALL our fellow soldiers in this fight?
So. You got her back?