I highly spirited debate that has never, ever happened before!

There is a very interesting debate going on down here in Colorado right now. I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed anything like it. Michael Bennet, a right wing Democrat, won the nomination from Andrew Romanoff, who ran as a progressive. (Don’t know what to think about that, as Romanoff was once a member of the DLC. Sometimes even our primary choices are fake.)

Bennet has no use for progressives, and even refuses to come on the Denver radio station and talk to the progressive base. That is such a surprise, as usually right wing Democrats understand give and take, and realize that to get progressives to vote for them, they have to give something.

But oddly, Bennet is giving nothing. I’ve never seen that before! Imagine a right wing Democrat refusing to give anything to progressives! It’s crazy, but when I look in those beady eyes, I think he might want to have them arrested.

So the debate is this: Democrats say that as bad as Bennet is, if his opponent, Ken Buck, gets in office, things will be even worse! And they also say that progressives have this crazy “all or nothing” mentality and would rather (they are coining a phrase here, so please try to imagine it visually) “cut off their nose to spite their faces.”

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OK. That was sarcasm. This is real: To please his base, Ken Buck is running as a wild-eyed right winger. To avoid making promises, Michael Bennet is avoiding progressives, and being vague. He thinks progressives have nowhere else to go anyway, so fuck ’em. This being America, progressives being mild and malleable, he’s probably right.

When Bennet or Buck get to Washington, if both could be elected, they would disappear behind closed doors,sit down, shake hands, and get to work on the corporate agenda. They are the same person. They are only playing roles assigned them by political necessity.

Democrats who call progressives names for not supporting their crappy candidate are stupid. Progressives who vote for that crappy candidate because he is the “lesser of evils” are stupid.

I know no other words that fits so well.