by jane gordon [courtesy of Blog for America]

Before, I only questioned their tactics. All of a sudden, I question their strategy . And their motives. And here's why: from the way she (& Bill, & "surrogates") have been talking, it looks to me like they now plan to walk out of the convention, if she is unable to get the nomination. They will get up and walk out, and start their own version of their own party, and they don't even care that they will hand the power over to the Bush/McCain Party for the next four years. They don't care because they have lost control. They no longer control the DNC, Dean's 50-state strategy reached right around them and took it away, giving it back to the state parties where it belonged. They can't control the young people flooding in, and even their secret control weapon, the "super" delegates, have realized that they have to vote as their states' popular vote totals will dictate, so they have lost that one remaining vestige of control. These DLC cronies are funded only by their corporate donors, they have NO base in this party. So they will throw it out with the morning trash and make up some slick focus-group-tested new name for whatever they'll trot out ... the New-Democrats? the True-Democrats?... the Global-Democrats?

by jane gordon [courtesy of Blog for America]

I just read that the Dem Party of TX has purged Kucinich from the ballot because he refused to sign a "loyalty oath" to support the party's eventual nominee. He's filed suit to get back on. DFA should support him in this. It violates his first and fourteenth amendment rights. I'm pretty sure he will and hope he does support the nominee, and if they want, the party should certainly publicize that he doesn't want to pledge such support, to bring public pressure on him to do so. But to PURGE him from the ballot? Absolutely not. Especially in the midst of all our hype and hoopla about how we're the "Party of Change" bla bla bla???  It's positively Rovian, and should not stand. As Howard has said a zillion times, "we're BETTER THAN THAT!" Let's see us be better than that in this issue. Support Kucinich's right to be heard and voted for. What are they afraid of, exactly?