The problem with the Democrats is...

The problem for Democrats is that the Party constituents do not know how to play the game of two party politics as well as constituents of the Republican Party. Republicans are passionate about one thing more than anything else and that is keeping a Liberal out of the White House. Their anti-liberal passion trumps any passion they have for any of their favorite Republican, more so than the Democrats are able to trump their party favorites to strategically unify to defeat the Republicans.

If you are a coach trying to steer your team to victory, you have to play the players who are going to get the job done and that is not necessarily the coach’s favorite. When Randy Moss played for the Minnesota Vikings, he was seen as a jerk and a-hole and I am sure that there were receivers on the team who the coach liked a lot more, however, they could not catch the ball and score touchdowns like Moss could. The problem with Democrats is that they want to play their favorites and seem to place little value in the strategy of putting the player on the field that is most likely to score touchdowns against the Republicans in the general election.

Personally, I am a radical and there is currently no party for radicalism, as I feel that America needs radical changes. That said, there are still only two options and my choice of the two bad options would be Democrat. Of the Democrats, my favorite was Kucinich, he had radical ideals most of which I agreed with. However, he has no viability. My second favorite, ignoring strategy, would be Obama. I really like the brother. I like how he carries himself and I think he is as competent, if not more, than any other president to date. My least favorite candidate is Hillary Clinton. She was once asked about the issue of reparations and the way she answered it, so crudely, so undiplomatically and so emphatically no that I never cared for her much after that. That noted, if a Democrat asked me who to vote for I would say Clinton, assuming that winning the general election against the Republicans was the goal.


Democrats cannot seem to understand that a great place to vacation is not necessarily a great place to live. They don’t seem to realize that their favorite candidate might not have what it takes to be the nation’s consensus favorite candidate in the general election, through no fault of the candidate. They cannot seem to unify in a strategy to benefit the collective interest of the party and would rather place more value in the sub interest of the party. This has created the type of division and disunity that leads to the party's nomination not being the best player to get the job done against the Republicans.

The Democrats cannot see the forest for the trees. The Republican party may seem weak right now, but I can guarantee you at the end of the day they will put forward the best player on their team who has the best chance of keeping a liberal out of the White House. The same cannot be said about the Democrats due to the fact that their passion to keep a Republican out of the White House is less than their passion for their favorite canidate in the primaries. This is not how to play the flawed game of two party politics. We need to scrap the two party system, but for now, that is the game that needs to be played and Democrats are behaving as if the viable options are not binary.

Right now, despite the terrible tenure of the Republicans in the executive and legislature since 2000, if the economy holds on through November, via rebates and money (credit) give aways...look for the divisions in the Democratic party, resulting from the efforts to get the 1st black president or the 1st female president, to ultimately result in the 44th president.......being a Republican! When that happens....you can bet that the same people who placed individual interest over party interest and viablity in the general election, will be complaining on Blogs and Forums about how the Republicans are screwing things up. Yet, they will only have themselves to blame for not focusing on the collective interest of the parties viability in the Presidential election against a Republican.