I refuse to support ANY candidate or ANY party that does not forcefully address our constitutional crisis

the various posts and comments here yesterday on cindy sheehan's banning from daily kos seem to have generated a fair amount of discussion on what i consider to be a very central issue, namely how can people concerned about the terrible state of our nation come together to do something about it without becoming mired in partisan politics...

commenter betmo...

i just got in a world of crap for pointing out the hypocrisies of the left. a fellow blogger got in a world of crap for pointing out that one particular blog uses similar propaganda techniques as the neo cons to promote fear. we both got raked over the coals hard. i don't care which side of the aisle you are on- if your interests lie with saving this country---and saving the planet- then we can fight side by side. if you are interested in promoting party politics as usual, you need not apply.

my thoughts in response...

i couldn't agree more... while i totally understand and to a large extent agree with those who believe that, unless the dems stick together, we might not be able to remove the criminals from the white house and congress, i have no desire to substitute those criminals with different criminals who are better at play-acting their concern for the commonwealth and the constitution... it's high time the american people got shoe-leather honest and recognized that by abdicating our rightful role in our country's governance, we've allowed the foxes to rule the henhouse and we simply can't tolerate that any longer...

hell, i don't want to see a nader spoiler open the door for another bush-type president, but i also realize that lock-step support of a one-party ticket is asking to be charmed into allowing ourselves to be robbed rather than being robbed by decree...

i'll tell ya what... i'm DELIGHTED to be having this kind of discussion because i believe it's PRECISELY the kind of discussion we ought to be having...

it's clear as hell to me that the bush administration's shredding of the fundamentals the united states was founded on only happens to be the most overt, brazen, and egregious in a series of presidential administrations that traveled the very same road, and all of them have done so with our implicit, if not conscious, consent... the cornerstones of our nation, as enshrined in the declaration of independence, the constitution, the bill of rights, and all the other constitutional amendments, supported by years of judicial precedent supporting those fundamentals, are our sine qua non... it is those combined principles, values and beliefs that embody any and all hope for our future as a nation, and they are systematically and deliberately being negated... i have now reached the point where i simply cannot support ANY candidate or ANY party that does not, cannot or will not stand up and forcefully address that crisis...

i'll re-post what i told a woman with the john edwards campaign when she called me for a donation in early june...

i said that i see the united states in the middle of the worst constitutional crisis of its history and that i am not hearing ANY candidate calling it for what it is... [...] i said that unless and until a presidential candidate stands up and calls it for what it is, and starts talking about what WE can do to set things right, he or she will NOT get my support... i asked her to please pass that along to edwards, which she assured me she would... then i said that, when edwards decides to step forward on that issue, to please feel free to get back with me...

they still haven't called me back...

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