The Purge That Strengthens

Ben Chandler's effective defection to the teabaggers has opened a rift among Kentucky Democrats, with progressives condemning him and vowing never to vote for him again.

But even before the new anti-DINOs can coalesce behind a progressive challenger, any minute now the concern trolls are going to start tut-tutting over how those awful dirty fucking hippies are going to destroy the Democratic Party by "purging moderates," just like the teabaggers are destroying the repug party by purging its moderates.

Here's the difference:

Teabaggers demand government policies and actions rejected by the majority of Americans.

Liberals demand government policies and actions supported by the majority of Americans.

(See here, here, and here. The last shows how even people who self-identify as "conservative" take liberal positions on most issues.)

Teabaggers purging moderates who don't support their demands reduces their public support and weakens the repug party.

Liberals purging moderates who don't support our demands increases our public support and strengthens the democratic party.

Ben Chandler claims his constituents are conservative and oppose the public option. Really? I must have missed the release of that polling data. What's that you sayt? No such poll exists? Gee, could it possibly be that Wire Hanger and the Kentucky Democratic party have avoided commissioning such a poll because they're afraid it'll show that Kentuckians want a strong public option and don't want their wives and sisters and daughters dying of sepsis from back-alley abortions?

Or maybe they know for a fact that most people want the job-creating, health-and-safety protecting, catastrophe-avoiding government programs that only liberals can bring them.