What Tristero Said!

Commentary By Ron Beasley

This old hippie is tired of getting punched.  I have no intention of voting for my Democratic congressman David Wu in 2010 even if it might mean a Republican will take the seat.  Over at Hullabaloo tristero explains it better than I could:

There surely will be anti-war marches in the months ahead and I'll be there. But as far as expressing effective opposition to Obama's nonsensical strategy, marches and demonstrations are hardly sufficient. Liberals need to make it crystal clear that Democrats who support this folly can depend upon zero support in the upcoming elections. I say this fully aware that witholding support could very well lead to the dreadful result of more Republican extremists in Congress, something this country really can't afford.

But we have no choice. If the Democratic party today doesn't have viable candidates who are prepared to oppose this crazy policy, it sure as hell will have them two elections hence. I realize that opposing the election of Democrats at a time when the opposition party has literally gone off the deep end puts this country at serious risk of another extreme rightwing takeover. But I don't think liberals have much choice but to take that risk. We are talking about potentially thousands upon thousands of human deaths for an utterly pointless war. This liberal - and I'm hardly the only one - can neither support nor excuse what is now officially the Obama/Afghan War.

No way, no how, under no circumstances.