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Targetpractice10/06/2018 1:04:10 pm PDT

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹

Stranded on the end of the last thread.

Part of politics is having the power to advance your agenda. If you don’t have that power, you don’t get your agenda or any part of it.

Would 100 Kamala Harrises be great? Sure. You ain’t gettin’ em.

If there was a credible candidate to run in a primary who could beat Joe Manchin, great. Someone in West Virginia can run against him.

Manchin has been this way for a long time. No one has run a credible campaign from the left against him.

It would appear your argument is “well, if we’re going to run Manchin for a single seat in West Virginia, we’re all hypocrites” or something.

I suppose we could put up the DNC platform and say “no one who can meet these planks A-Z need apply.”

I’ll doff my Devil’s Advocate robes for a moment to say that intellectually I understand the necessity of electing men like Joe Manchin. But one day Joe’s either going to retire or drop dead. And it’s looking like when that happens, we’re gonna be propping up his corpse in his seat because we have no alternatives.