Not many people would have me pegged for a voter who has registered but refused to specify a party. Most of my threads have a Democratic tilt to them. I've worked in some form or another for the Democratic Party since 2004, so far as taking an active part in campaigns. However, I'm not a registered Democrat. Why? Because I fear the lunatic liberal fringe of my party like no other, and I know I'm not the only one.
John Kerry was just the beginning of this burgeoning liberal fringe getting back out into the public eye, finding their voice and with it a demand to dominate any discussion on the position of the Democratic Party. Howard Dean did little to help, much less that miserable Markos Moulitsas at DailyKos, or any of the number of interchangeable, pointless liberal blogs that possess some of the most self-obsessed and self-loving people in the world.
The thing is, I fear like the plague that the Democrats will nominate someone like John Kerry or Hillary Clinton in 2008, ramming through the liberal agenda of a vocal minority in order to appease the loudmouths. While I bent over and took the sodomy of Democratic ideals like a good employee in 2004, I'm not going to stand for another Kerry run, or Clinton taking her ambitions to center stage, and sacrificing what should be a victory in Congress and the White House in order to appease vanity.
Unless the Democratic Party moves back to the sensible middle, and ditches some of the noise-and-smoke Michael Moore's instead of letting them control the media and make every Democrat look like a raging Nancy Pelosi, they're going to be consigned to defeat in election after election. And they deserve it. The liberal fringe that dictates the Democratic Party does not represent American views, not in any substantial way. What they have is a 1968, a Gene McCarthy candidacy over and over, with motivated and idealistic people who just never seem to turn idealism into votes.
God damnit, the Democratic Party jumped the tracks somewhere and now it's right fucked.