In my nearly 30 years of voting I have never voted for any politician that didn't have a D after there name. Republican? Forget it. Independant? Not a shot. I subscribed to the notion that
"we" had to have D's in political positions to keep the r's from pushing their agenda forward. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore. It will probably be nearly impossible to defeat these entrenched politicians but they're not looking after the national interest anyway.
A few months ago Cindy Sheehan had a recommended diary suggesting she wanted to run against Nancy Pelosi as an independent. Those that published comments agreeing with her were attacked quite aggressively. The major argument being "we" needed to elect Democrats for gosh sakes!!! I don’t see how this stance can even be defended anymore. With Harry Reid set to undermine Chris Dodd(and in fact what Reid is set to do is unprecedented-by any measure), Jay Rockefeller coming to agreement with this administration on telecom immunity(and accepting millions of dollars from them-essentially being bribed) and Ms. Pelosi unable to control the House it just simply can’t be argued anymore that Democrats like Reid, Rockefeller and Pelosi need to be re-elected. In fact they don’t, they need to be defeated. Can anyone really argue that having more politicians such as Bernie Sanders in Washington would be worse than having "democrats" such as Reid, Rockefeller and Pelosi?
No less a luminary than Glenn Greenwald has been saying he doesn't see how having these Dem majorities has been doing us any good. These democratic politicians have, for the most part been lying prostrate-offering no resistance to the bush administration on the one main reason (Iraq) they were elected and standing by "helplessly"(well actually aiding and abetting) as the bush administration has been rolling back the constitution.
If Ms. Sheehan changes her mind and does in fact decide to run against Pelosi as an independent, I’m giving her money. I’ve given several hundred dollars to various dems over the last two election cycles and I’m sick of getting shit on-no more. In fact if credible independents begin to challenge dems or republicans for that matter I’m giving them money. The status can no longer be quo.