The entrenched party leadership, with their heads still firmly up their asses (next to their tails) have managed to twist enough donor arms to drown the financial life out of Paul Hackett’s senate bid in Ohio. Paul Hackett. The Democrat who won 48% of the vote in a House election in a heavily (Heavily) Republican district last year.

Fuck the Democratic Leadership. (Can’t say it any plainer than that.)

I just sent an email to the DSCC/DCCC that is included below. Before I get to that though, I want to address the only comments coming from the idiots supporting what happened today:

Idiot statement #1: What’s done is done, now we all have to rally around our party’s guy.

No. Absolutely fucking not. How on God’s Green Earth will the Democratic party ever evolve or change if we blindly go along with whatever they do. I’m a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I could just as easily be as Republican as a Democrat. The reason I’m not is that Republicans march in lock-step behind their leaders without independent thought, honesty, integrity, or moral judgement. I will NOT tolerate that behavior in my leaders or my party.

Idiot statement #2: Stop arguing. The Republicans are laughing at us.

They probably are. I laughed my ass off for weeks on end after Bush nominated Harriet Miers for the supreme court. Let them laugh. Oh, and try growing up. See #1. I’m not going be quiet for the sake of the party. The party had damn well better learn how to respect it’s members for the sake of the party.

Idiot statement #3: To be clear — Hackett didn’t stand a chance. He had a tenth of Brown’s money –Kos

I lost a lot of respect for Kos today. Many blogs have pointed out how he changed his tune on this topic. He waffled just a hair slower than the DSCC/DCCC he was railing against not to long ago and for the same reasons as them. One more Democrat who seems to have traded in his spine in exchange for a seat at the table of power. Maybe he’ll run for office now.

Here is my letter:

I am a lifelong liberal who switched to the Democratic party from the Green party after the 2000 election. Politically, I think I’ve wasted the last five years.

I keep hearing talk about how we have to support the Democratic party because it’s the only opposition in town. Well, too bad. I’d rather the Republicans kept winning until there was actually a party that supported liberals and listened to us, the little people. The net-roots. The activists.

After the Fiasco with Paul Hackett today, I guarantee you that the DSCC and DCCC will not see a penny of my money in 2006 or 2008. I will consider giving to the DNC but not if I think, for even a moment, that the rest of the “Democratic Leadership” will have any say in how that money is spent.

Grow a goddamn spine. Stand up for what you believe in, if you believe in anything other than your own power and the latest polling data.

I will continue to support local candidates here in Texas. One can only hope that you’ll stay the Hell out of the primaries down here.

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