Hillary Clinton

Re I shake my head when some claim Kaine isn't "progressive" enough. In most cases *those* are the folks who don't know work in coalition!

No one is ever going to be progressive enough for the left-wing extremists who demand that candidates address every social ill as soon as they get into office. "Well, yeah, we got a health care bill enacted, but it took way to long to get it done - and he didn't address MY pet issue." There's no compromise with these people and no common sense in that wing of the Democratic Party. They talk like progressives but they act like Teabaggers. I suggest that the next progressive administration begin its tenure by announcing an agenda of issues it plans to tackle in the order it plans to tackle them - tell supporters that if it wants their pet issue addressed they'd damned well better do everything humanly possible to get items ahead of it on the agenda squared away. Then tell them that achieving goals requires more than just bitching and making demands from the sidelines. They've got to be involved - mobilize to flood the offices of those standing in the way with emails and phone calls. Vilify them. Explain to the opposition's constituents what action proposed by progressives will mean to them - direct benefits they will see and feel in their neighborhoods. Reduce issues to catch phrases and bumper stickers and repeat them over and over and never stray from message. Turn the right wing's tactics against them.