Fellow travelers:

If indeed the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party sits this election out, they are not worth spit. Only the blindest of fools can imagine a return to Republican rule - or is that oppression - is not a terrifying proposition. Republicans promise - that's right, PROMISE - disaster for our Republic.

I have been registered as an Independent for many, many years now. I am hardly enamored of the Democratic Party, but the Republicans guarantee further attacks on our civil liberties, a virtual police state, and the total destruction of what remains of the middle class. They cannot be allowed to return to power

Folks, that ain't hyperbole. The extremists who control the Republican Party want serfdom for all but the wealthiest of American citizens.

You know what really pains me is that the Tea Partiers act as if:

* they are not benefitting from all of the Administration's accomplishments

* they act as if they will be excluded from all of the disastrous fallout if the Replublicans take the majority

* the act as if it's OK to continue to send jobs that Americans can hold down, to other countries

* they act as if intelligent folk are not listening to what they are spewing and are in disagreement with, no matter how many different polls they put out

But, part of the problem is that the tea partiers are NOT LISTENING!!!!! They seem content to just follow the leaders of the party into the depths of Hell .... just becuase, they can't stand the fact that the President is Black, intelligent, on point, handsome, in control, and possesses everything that makes him a GREAT leader. And they have such a hard time dealing with intelligence....period!

It really isn’t about being for the Democrats, for me it is about not accepting the deception of the ‘puppet’ performance of the Republicans, Tea Party or regular. While I am disappointed by much of what the Democrats offer, I am totally disgusted and offended by what the Republicans do and say. I get angry as they try to use the current discontentment to manipulate instead of being honestly responsible. I noticed one individual posted that as a committed Democrat he became disillusioned with their moving too far to the left and switched his loyalty to the Tea Party candidates - asking us to believe that he went from being liberal to ultra-conservative – I just hope I don’t come across as phony.

I am an ex-registered (long term) Republican that became completely disenchanted with Bush-Cheney, their gross dishonesty, their arrogance and their total concentration on the few (their strong supporters) while irresponsibly giving the majority only deceptive rhetoric aimed to rationalize and justify and then was alienated by the total Republican Party who stubbornly supported Bush-Cheney and who have performed as ‘puppets’ for Special Interests and the select few ever since. I have never been a Democrat and I clearly see their problems but I will still vote for them as offering, sometimes misguided, sincere concern for the people, for the majority and as is my concern, for the middle-class, the total middle-class. The Republicans are owned and controlled by the powerful, influential and extremely wealthy few who ‘pull their strings’ and who hold all of the power that supports them, including all of the overt and covert third party efforts to manipulate public opinion – like the Tea Party movement. The Republicans clearly put their political ambitions above all else – which has already cost us substantially – and as such have totally subordinated everything else to the interests of the few who they serve. The Republicans offer nothing but a disguised effort to return to ‘more of the same’ which has already cost us and which always benefits only the few.

I could easily give a long list, I have done so before, but people see what they want to see and reality is already right there in front of them. Again, the Democrats are not pure and holy but regrettably the Republicans are worse and are literally scary in offering the majority only apathy, the costs and an abundance of rationalized subterfuge. Their gross dishonesty and total concentration on providing benefit for only the few, which we have seen cost us before, is what I seek to avoid. The costs are right there to see: in all that Bush-Cheney did; in the irresponsibility of the Republican Party in first, supporting Bush-Cheney and then in refusing to offer bipartisan cooperation; and now in their trying to rationalize and disguise a return to ‘more of the same’, to again benefit only the few. All of it is always offered with their organized and unified aggressive efforts, their own and the substantial efforts of those who really stand to gain, aimed to deceive, manipulate and con the public. Even the individual candidates they choose are obviously selected for their ‘puppet’ qualities and ability to get attention, without ever considering real qualifications. If they should ever gain the majority and the control with their ‘puppet army’, the average American will again loose substantially and just be arrogantly given more subterfuge to swallow, as the country becomes one split between the very few and the majority, between ‘those having advantage and those taken advantage of’.

If we really want to see what a depression looks like, electing the Republicans to undo what has already been done will get the job done. The situation is so critical, I don't want to think about it. Republicans have no ideas but only to redistribute the wealth and protect their pork. to hell with the rest of us. They will lie, steal, backstab and support ordinarily unelectible candidates just to get rid of this President. Too bad, the Blue Dog Democrats can't be supportive so we could have gotten more done. We have people in office who really care. Electing the opposite will have exactly the opposite effect.

I am so confused by the Tea Party rhetoric for many reasons the main one being inconsistency! These people seem to feel that are the consummate Patriots yet they would be willing to discontunue any sort of aid to our veterans.

Also the conservatives complain about all of Obama's spending. Does anyone remember that when Obama took office and began his budget process he added back to the deficit the dollars that Bush/ Cheney admin had creatively excluded from their numbers... the cost of two wars!!

I am so confused by the Tea Party rhetoric for many reasons the main one being inconsistency! These people seem to feel that are the consummate Patriots yet they would be willing to discontunue any sort of aid to our veterans.

Also the conservatives complain about all of Obama's spending. Does anyone remember that when Obama took office and began his budget process he added back to the deficit the dollars that Bush/ Cheney admin had creatively excluded from their numbers... the cost of two wars!!

I am so sick of hearing Obama talk about the last 8 years. This whole thing started when Obama sued the good ole USA on behalf of ACORN. this suit started the downfall of our economy. Even Bill Clinton stated that" if this thing fails our country in in real trouble. The pass through money from Aunt Fannie was the start of this fiasco. This economic failure lays at the feet of aunt fannie, Obama and Clinton.