As a moderate I have been flamed on this site over and over but I am a Democrat. I am voting Democrat and I am giving money to Democrats. Please join me to help keep conservatives out of office.
I have heard the arguments against pragmatism on this site over and over and over. Got it, I get your point. Now please consider my point.
If you do not become pragmatic and give full throated support to Obama and the Dem's you risk losing everything you worked for since 2002. That is a decade of work gone in a night because you wanted to make a statement. If you ever cared about SCHIP, Stem Cell research, a womens right to choose, a progressive tax system, getting out of Iraq, religious freedom or the freedom to be an athiest, etc ,etc; it's time to hold your nose, but your boots on and get to work. Please. I am begging on my knees!
Your principles are important, no doubt, but so are outcomes. Elections matter, big time. I am not asking you to change your principles, change your approval, change your opinion, I am asking for your help.
Converatives are not going to help you. They are going to actively try to marginalze and destroy your movement
Moderates will help you...sometimes. Maybe not as much as you want, but they are better than conservatives. And many times they are the enemy of conservatives. To borrow a phrase "the enemy of my emeny is my friend".
So pick your poison liberals. Do you want a gov run by progressives with a tilt toward the center, a gov run by moderates with a tilt toward the left or do you want a gov run conservatives with a tilt toward the crazy? I just don't see the option in 2010 for having a gov run by progressives with a tilt toward the left, I don't see that happening.
It really is up to you. Without the full force of the left the pundits will be proved correct, I guarantee it.
PS. Elizabeth Warren is a rock star!