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• Friday, February 24, 2006 11:47 AM

  Hillary and LGBT Voters

  I affraid that ya'll don't get it. Hillary is taking these positions because there is no other way to get elected (if she can be elected at all, more on that later). It's called triangulation, running to the center, etc. It's is extrodinarily frustrating that a substantial portion of the left wing of the Democratic party just doesn't get it -- for good or for ill, most of America is not as liberal as we are. I consider myself a bomb-throwing, liberal Democrat. Hell, some of my friends say I'm to the left of Fidel Castro. But most of America, especially that segment of swing voters that decide elections, is way more conservative than I am. And especially on social issues. To win elections, we must run to the center. And that brings us to the million dollar question: Can Hillary win.

  Personally, I think the answer in no, she can't. I think we should nominate a more conservative, middle of the road Democrat who has the potential to win at least a hand full of States in the South (e.g. John Edwards, Mark Warner, maybe Evan Bayh, etc.). Would I rather Hillary be President than these guys? With the exception of John Edwards, sure. Hell, I'd like Charlie Rangle, Llody Doggett, Nancy Pelosi, John Lewis, Jim Hightower, Tom Harkin, or Barbara Boxer to be president, too, but that's not going to happen.

  —Texas PI Lawyer Read Texas PI Lawyer's other letters
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