Human Rights Campaign

The Democrats are truly stupid. Karl Rove is smart. It's so clear.

Karl Rove pushed the Republicans violently towards the far right, and realized that they could make the Democrats constantly bow and play defense. They played towards the base, rather than the middle, turning the Democrats into the middle and the middle into the right.

Last night, the Democrats attended a debate hosted by the Human Rights Campaign in Los Angeles. This group advocates for civil rights for gays, lesbians, etc. This is an issue that is important for a large portion of the left, and it is pallatable to another chunk. It's distasteful to the right.

If any of the major candidates had made an impassioned speech calling for the end of bigotry, if they had invoked the scientific consensus on the fact that there is merely a spectrum that we are all born into that ranges from gay to straight, and that denying someone rights by law is discrimination and is contrary to our country's history and morality, if he/she had tied into the global issue of human rights, of compassion, of equality, if he/she had attacked Civil Unions as "Separate but Equal", and called on the USA to accept a higher morality, a higher equality, etc., he/she would be an immediate rock star and the darling of the liberals.

The Democrats, however, are cowards who still don't get it. You don't win an election by sulking around, attempting to not step on your opponents' toes. They call you socialists, you call them bigots. Guess who's more correct? Instead, they pussyfoot around the issue and let Kucinich make them look stupid. Kucinich will not win, the left will be unimpressed with the Democratic nominee and the door will be open for a Bloomberg or a Gingrich or a Thompson, and then where will we be. Obama doesn't know anything about being a minority and neither does Hillary. Edwards thinks he is a straight-talker? I call bullshit on him. Maybe I won't vote. I don't care anymore about anyone's grandiose theories of how to win elections. Try advocating good things and pushing for positive changes in our culture, instead of doing what the crooked lobbyists make you think the public wants. We are sheep, but you must lead.

I'm sick of 'em. F%§$ing hypocrites.

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