Are you telling me that the Democratic Party is run by a bunch of humble altruists whose only goal in life is to relieve the plight of the common man?
No, I think he is just articulating what most of us who regularly (albeit, reluctantly) find ourselves voting for democratic candidates have always said: it just is less evil than the alternative. I have always maintained that voting democratic requires a high degree of physical dexteriry: you have to be able to work the voting machine with your right hand and hold your nose with your left hand.
I am old and have seen a lot of government come and go... and some of the things I have learned are these:
1) republican claim to be the party of "smaller government", but in reality the size of government explodes when they are in office (check the numbers).
2) republicans accuse demos of being "tax and spend", but the reality is that repubs are the party of "borrow and spend" which is ultimately MUCH worse because it has run the deficit up to a point from which it will never recover.
3) repubs accuse dems of being hung up on social spending and there is some accuracy there... but in general, the republican party is heartless when it comes to taking care of the lower classes. Governor reagan once expounded on how private sector should be doing it, not the government... as he shut down 90% of the state mental hospitals in California. Those looneys found there way to being the thousands of homeless people staggering down the street swatting invisible flies and dying a slow, misearble death because their families could not cope with them.
No party is perfect, but I have clearly seen human misery goes way up under republican administrations and that is just the way it is. Dfenese spending also goes through the roof along with the deficit, and we will all eventually pay for that reckless spending.
The final thing that makes me choke on the idea of voting republican is the level of hypocrisy embedded into their value system: they fight so hard to make it illegal to get an abortion, but fight just as hard against state funded programs for pre-natal care for the indigent and call all the woman who are forced to have the babies "welfare mothers" with a sneering disdain.
Repubs claim the moral high ground and claim to be the party of God..... they will stampede in front of a camera to scream about the destruction of the sanctity of marriage if gays are allowed to have civil unions. So, where is the outrage that should exist for the fact my wife and I pay an additional $5000 per year in taxes for the choice to BE MARRIED? We have a republican congress, where is the legislation to eliminate the "marriage penalty" which is a REAL cause of destruction of marriage?
Still waiting..........
Neither party is perfect, but the dems generally don't have as much hatred for the general population laced into their aims and actions. For me, that's enough.