it's just what liberals do. when it's "their guy" they're more than willing to excuse the most magnificent crimes.
And that's what irritates me about the left in this country. Wiretapping under Bush? Everyone wigs out. Practical evisceration of the 4th Amendment via the NDAA under Obama? Weak justifications, or they look over it.
I seriously just don't get it.
Personal I think it's quite simple; the election 2000 showed the price of ideological purity and the whole argument that "the lesser evil is still evil". It got people 8 years with George Bush's cronies, policies and wars.... and no matter how much a corporate stooge the left find him, he's still preferable to Bush. So yes they could play it up, but it would make them nothing more than useful idiots for GOP.
So basically let the Democrats get worse and worse, without holding their feet to the fire, because it's politically convenient at that moment?
Honestly, I used to believe there must be a point where Democrats draw the line on their Presidential Candidate, but after NDAA - I seriously believe their candidate could be a proto-fascist, but as long as the Republicans pose someone further to the right, they'll continue to support them.
Likely but I think people focus the wrong places if the left want to change the Democratic Party, they shouldn't focus on the president, but on the states and the legislative branch. In blue states the left should try to push to the left, while it may mean some may be lost, the republicans who could win in such states, will have to be more moderate and that will mean that they will pull the Republicans to the left. It's the tactic which the far right have used to transform GOP.
