Are you happy with the state of your party?

[Beet]

I personally am not happy with my party. It is too controlled by people unwilling to compromise

There's no need to compromise as the GOP already controls everything. Who would we compromise with, ourselves?

[Beet]

I personally am not happy with my party. It is too controlled by people unwilling to compromise

There's no need to compromise as the GOP already controls everything. Who would we compromise with, ourselves?

By compromise, I mean compromise with the moderate part of our party. That is, the party increasingly is controlled by people who believe that we are losing because we aren't being "pure enough."

If Dean had won the nomination and given up 300+ electoral votes, that wing would be silenced by now. Unfortunately, having Kerry has the nominee decided nothing.

[Beet]

Not happy at all.  We need to get back to our populist roots.  We are no longer the party of the working class, and the American people know it.  We've sold them out.

Totally agree.

I am happy with people like Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, Brian Schweitzer, Elliot Spitzer, and Dick Durbin, but upset with many other Washington Democrats (like all those who voted for the bankruptcy bill) and those who are scared to stand up to the extremist Republican agenda.

I am also not happy about having Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh as our top two nominees for 2008, since both represent the corporate wing of the Democratic party.

How does Bayh represent the "corporate wing"?