General Discussion

and crippling. They insisted on voting their "conscience" during the key 2000 Presidential race and got us two wars that didn't need to happen, 9/11 that could have been prevented, a trillion dollar plus annual budget deficit from a surplus, 11 trillion dollars more debt, 10,000 American soldiers dead and tens of thousands having their lives, minds and bodies permanently damaged. One would have assumed that with some introspection they would have learned. But then came the critical 2010 midterms, they had not learned.

The "principled" set would have given the country a shape shifting President had enough Independents who swallowed republican lies during the 2010 midterms not recognized the error of their ways and voted for President Obama and democrats in mass. And what happens after President Obama is returned to office with more democrats in Congress? The "vote their conscience" set ignore the contributions of moderate democrats, left of center democrats and Independents in their rush to claim credit for the victories, even as their contributions were minimal when compared to the afore-mentioned groups.

I frankly am tired of dealing with the "principled" set. I want to see more Independents make their home in the party so that moderate-left people like me can push the complainers out of the party and into their own, tiny little world.