One member of that left wing walked.
My point is the left wing can walk, and find a home with the Dems. The right wing can not, any more than the socialist wing of the Dems can join the GOP. If you walk, you might cost the GOP the next election, if it's close. In the long term this might not be a disaster - Bush has triangulated too much for my taste too - but you risk the possibility that instead of trying to win you back, they decided it's easier to win votes by moving even further to the left. That leaves you permanently isolated.
I'm talking realpolitik, and you're talking theological purity.
Isn't that something akin to 'moral relativism'? Again, the strength of one's convictions, whatever they are, are the best qualities of leadership, and what wins followers. Not the UN approach of realpolitik, compromise, lack of conviction.
"...and you're talking theological purity."
Post a quote of mine from this thread that backs up that statement.
"I'm talking realpolitik..."
Isn't that something akin to 'moral relativism'? Again, the strength of one's convictions, whatever they are, are the best qualities of leadership, and what wins followers. Not the UN approach of realpolitik, compromise, lack of conviction.
"...and you're talking theological purity."
Post a quote of mine from this thread that backs up that statement.