What is your definition of a ';true democrat?'; Which ';democrat'; is the ';true'; one anyway? (please read)

I keep seeing people saying that a democrat who doesn't support whoever the DNC chooses was ';never a true democrat.'; (sounds like ';once saved, always saved'; LOL)





I'm an independent, so maybe I don't get the whole ';party loyalty'; thing, but seeing how registered democrats are so divided, why are democrats being coerced to be loyal to a party, when they may believe the party has not been loyal to them???





(this works for republicans too, I'm sure)What is your definition of a ';true democrat?'; Which ';democrat'; is the ';true'; one anyway? (please read)
There are some people that believe that the big issue with the Dem party at the moment is that the very liberal (who have been taking over the party) are pulling for Obama and the more moderates are going with Hillary. But you have a very good point that lack of loyalty begets lack of loyalty.





This is why many moderate Dems are seriously looking at McCain (moderate Repub). I think the country is quite PRIMED at the moment to start a third party with more moderate views.





If you look at many of the polls of regular people on specific issues, the people tend to be more moderate. For example, I read somewhere that 60% of people in this country think abortion has to be legal but they want it to be very rare.What is your definition of a ';true democrat?'; Which ';democrat'; is the ';true'; one anyway? (please read)
If this was a Popularity contest it would make no difference.. But the idea of voting for a Party is because that party supports your personal beliefs.. To jump ship due to something as silly as sour grapes, is basically saying you have NO REASON you were voting for someone except when you vote on something besides the issues.. Especially when you go so drastic to vote for a party which you have nothing in common with when it comes to the issues they support.. There is no place in politics for sour grapes.. After all you vote will dictate how you live for the next 4 years plus! Not to vote for the party who's issues which most effect you and will effect you is just silly and childish!
The only way a party, either party, or any of the top 3, excuse me, WINS is through -- -- TA DA -- -- PARTY UNITY.





The Democrat party often lacks for that lately, i.e. the last 28 years. It's what wins elections.
A democrat is a person similar to Kennedy and what he represented, in my opinion. And, Obama represents that.
true democrats were assassinated right along with jfk...now, the democrats have become full-blown socialists on their way to becoming full-blown communists. 'tis a pity alright...
A true democrat is an open minded person who believes in true democracy anywhere in the world, where there is democracy-other kinds of rule are optional.
The party has moved to far to the center in recent years. Clinton was a centrist.





a true democrat is easily identified as the one the hardcore base supports....that would be Dennis Kucinich
HILLARY!
yep
John F. Kennedy gets my conservative, registered Republican vote





I was too young to vote in 1960 and my family was staunchly Republican, but I was drawn to Kennedy. He wanted America to have a bright future and recognized that we could only have it if we worked for it together. He was a true “unifier” who recognized that unity could only result from the people’s own commitment to the “common good” as they determined it to be. He had a special interest in the poor and the disadvantaged, but he never suggested that we could achieve any common good by divisive words or actions that would pit one economic class against another in the hope that promoting the welfare of one class at the expense of another would somehow produce the kind of unity that would benefit us all.





John Kennedy was the first and only U.S. President to understand modern economics. It was he, not Ronald Reagan, who entered the concept of “trickle-down economics” into our political consciousness. He believed that “A rising tide floats all boats,” and it was his policies that caused the tide to rise and the boats to float.





Kennedy had the ability to inspire people to a degree of selflessness and sacrifice that we have not seen since. He was assassinated before he could make his mark through his deeds, but his words continue to be a source of inspiration. When people read what Kennedy said more than 40 years ago, the words are as uplifting as they were for those who heard him speak them. Kennedy was a politician, but he was one who had an almost unique ability to use the same words to speak to everyone. Even Ronald Reagan, the “Great Communicator,” came up short in trying to do the same.





Many of us who are conservatives today remember John Kennedy, who in his own time was a liberal Democrat. And for many of us it was Kennedy who made it possible to believe that voting for the person, not the party was the best way to promote the common good. Many Democrats, including liberal ones, draw from the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt in charting a course for America. And many Republicans, including conservative ones, return the compliment by doing the same with John F. Kennedy.





Forget about Joe Dimaggio. Where have you gone, John F. Kennedy?








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