The issue is that if you caucus with them you will be supporting them in an effort at majority control, whatever your claims of separate values are in your personal platform.
At best you will be an outcast from your party, given no role in legislative terms and be a less than effective representative. Call yourself a federalist democrat if you will, but now try and distance yourself from the democrat foreign policy, federal aid to our less than friends abroad and the whole kit and caboodle of democrat history.
Its a gimmick, nothing more. Product differentiation like selling fruit in the vegetable section by mislabeling it.
The issue is that if you caucus with them you will be supporting them in an effort at majority control, whatever your claims of separate values are in your personal platform.
So, you are saying the Tea Party Republicans in the House are supporting John Boehner and the establishment Republicans' positions and "values" by caucusing with them?
At best you will be an outcast from your party, given no role in legislative terms and be a less than effective representative. Call yourself a federalist democrat if you will, but now try and distance yourself from the democrat foreign policy, federal aid to our less than friends abroad and the whole kit and caboodle of democrat history.
I'll be no more an outcast than the existing Blue Dogs or Tea Partiers are. I'm an Anti-Federalist Democrat, not a Federalist. I can and do distance Myself from ideas I don't support or espouse. That is no different than anyone else running for office. Trying to paint a whole party with one stroke is a mistake before your brush hits the canvas. My Democrats are all pre-Wilson and I am proud to stand with them.
Its a gimmick, nothing more. Product differentiation like selling fruit in the vegetable section by mislabeling it.
From what you write, I conclude that you believe all the Tea Party congressmen are gimmicks and charlatans, also.
James R. McClure Jr.
Jeffersonian Anti-Federalist Democrat candidate for IN09