HHHMMMMmmm . . . the following is supposedly not a disdain for 3rd parties or anything not-Democrat ? . . .

• Stephen Daugherty wrote: They [voters] should be allying with us [Democrats].
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: And yes, I obviously want voters to vote for Democrats. {Really? No kiddin'?}
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: d.a.n- If third parties can't win offices, what good are they to the voter?
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Being spoilers [independent/3rd party voters] only ensures being fringe. . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I do think voters should ally with Democrats.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: In my opinion, the proper people to run this party are the voters who elect Democrats.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I don’t disdain third parties.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: . . . as I don't like to hear people get down on my party, . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: As bad as Democrats were, the Republicans were worse, and unapologetically so.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: . . . because then your [independent/3rd] parties get blamed for sending things in a lousy direction.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: How many people curse the Green party for George W. Bush (43) getting elected?
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: It’s what Democrats like myself had to do, after all, to take back the majorities and the White House.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: You can blast me for being an unapologetic Democrat. Fine.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: They [Republicans] simply act as if it were all the Democrats fault, or the fault of people who became too liberal in Congress.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: The patience the Republicans had with corruption and greed will not be the patience Democrats will have.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: People used to say that there was no difference between Democrats and Republicans. {used to?}
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I can say its wiser in my opinion to be a Democrat, but that doesn’t mean a person can’t believe the other way.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: d.a.n - I don’t see porkbarrel there, little projects just meant to appeal to a base back home.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: They [Republicans] are forcibly using parliamentary procedures [e.g. filibuster] in an effort to prevent Democrats from getting legislation through on majority votes, to lower the Dem’s approval numbers.  {HMMMmmm . . . never mind that they both do it, eh?}
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Democrats, though they sometimes grumble about treatment in the press, or double standards, do not play the same “media bias” game, claiming that the mainstream media cannot be trusted. We don’t want a news channel all to ourselves. {Didn't Obama recently tell Fox News that "Fox is dedicated to ridiculing Obama and the democrats"?}
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Democrats like myself aren’t waiting on that. We’re not waiting for more problems to become critical, painful, to start the change.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: This “with Democrats help” thing [the war in Iraq] is a cop-out from the responsibility.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: We’re obviously having problems getting the longtime Republican allies in our party to understand how things have changed. And we may just sweep out a few incumbents in the primary to teach a lesson.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: The fact that I’m a Democrat who favors Democrats should not stop anybody from recognizing that this is a perfectly logical statement to make . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: you claim to know how I feel, and keep on trying to build a case that I simply hate non-Democrats. Give it a rest.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: My generation of Democrats prides itself on not being caught blindsided by either the Republicans, or their own side’s problems. The ears [of Democrats] are to the ground, and we’re always, ALWAYS watching. {Always? Then why does the IN-PARTY "always" become the OUT-PARTY?}
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Democrats have significantly shifted the balance of power, despite all the barriers the Republicans put in place to keep their power.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: There might have been some Democrats kicked out [in year 1933] {a total of 206 ousted in year 1933; and in year 1995, 69 Democrats ousted; a few Republicans ousted}, but they were replaced by Democrats, and then augmented by even more Democrats. That’s how FDR passed the New Deal.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: The Republicans have the choice, which I gladly let them have, of doing scuzzy things so they can make the Democrats look bad . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I chose to be like this. However, I don't like doing things in a way that I know is arbitrary. It offends me. My comments about third parties are valid.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I've been rather cross about your tendency to call the new [110th] congress a do-nothing congress . . . {Why? What did the 110th do-nothing Congress accomplish since 7-NOV-2006 ? And the 111th Congress consists of 86.9% of the 110th Congress.}
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I think you’re underestimating the results of this last election. {We'll see, since 85%-to-90% of incumbent politicians were re-elected.)
• Stephen Daugherty wrote {NEW!, which is ironic indeed}: . . . why do you uncritically accept partisan rhetoric . . .?
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I don’t disdain third parties.