We have to go to war with the progressive candidates we have not the progressive candidates we wish we had.  It's not efffective for you to shoot all the ones on the left for being too leftist.  You will never achieve your ideal candidate.  It's you that is being too idealistic.

All I ask is that you defend liberals.  They are supposedly your allies.  Look, I don't like the 9/11 truth stuff or other conspiracy theories.  But America is full of conspiracy theories.  Hell, the Republicans would have no one voting for them if they removed from their party those that believed Saddam Hussein attacked us on 9/11.  And some conspiracy theories are no more kooky that other establishment ideas (that we can win a war on drugs--that we need to send troops to the Middle East to make us safer).   And some conspiracy theories are understandable.  Like the AIDS thing.  There is some mainstream evidence (a Pulitzer was given for reporting on this) and the black community certainly has a historical reason for believing this consipiracy.

Look.  These people help your side.  I know you don't see it because the right-leaning people you have contact with are put-off by these Lefties.  But it does help.  We need people making these arguments.  It's a long-term strategy.  I used to be on your side tactically.  I thought if Democrats moved to the center it would help.  I now see that to win the long-term ideological battle we have to support our fighters on the left that are getting attacked.

And Martin Luther King, Jr. would not be involved in the Obama campaing.  He is too radical for Obama.  He said almost the exact same thing that Rev. Wright is saying.  You may not know this but MLK was a very divisive figure back in the day.  But back then Democrats and liberals banded together for a common and core value and were able to achieve victory.  They won the narrative.  MLK is now a hero in this country and has a day named after him (despite McCain's efforts to the contrary).  They won because  liberals stood up for the fighters on their left flank.  MLK today would be a nobody radical.