A Landslide Victory for Obama? Are You Kidding Me, Progressives?

The biggest clue that many Obama supporters are naive at best is the continual assertion I see on various online comments that Obama is going to have a "landslide victory" in November.

Huh? What?

Where do these people get this idea? It can't be from any sort of real hard data or polling, which shows Obama losing to McCain in a resounding electoral defeat.

Obama is the worst of all worlds for the Democratic party: He paints himself as a very liberal progressive (which is ensuring his defeat in November) while being a total corrupt politician who has a closet full of skeletons just waiting for the Republicans to pounce over.

Progressives, get this through your head: The United States is NOT NOW, nor will it ever be in the foreseeable future, "PROGRESSIVE."

I consider myself a progressive on many issues (I am pro-environment, for gay marriage, concerned about separation of church and state, etc.). However, I am a pragmatic progressive who grew up in the Midwest and understands what REAL AMERICAN PEOPLE are like.

And real American people are concerned first and foremost about the economy and the security of this nation. They do not give a rat's ass about a progressive agenda. They want to know that they will have jobs and money to feed their children, and that their children aren't going to grow up in a country being blown up by terrorists.

That's it. It's very simple. Economy + security. All that other progressive mumbo jumbo doesn't mean jack to them. So you are NAIVE at best if you think that somehow Barack Obama is going to appeal to the average American based on a progressive platform that he doesn't even care about himself.

Hillary gets a lot of crap from progressives for not being truly progressive, but isn't that the point? She's a Democrat who is moderate and therefore can WIN in November, while still being mindful and sympathetic to progressive issues. But she's not a progressive sell-out who will blanket approve anything progressive just because it came out of the left.

And shouldn't we have a moderate in power anyway? I mean, hello, last I checked elections were about representing the people. I don't have a problem with my president representing a solid middle ground. That makes sense to me.

But, apparently not, to many so-called "progressives," who want to ram their progressive agenda down everyone's throat. Hey, go give some money to your favorite cause - that's what they are there for. Our elected officials need to be able to look at both sides and come up with a reasonable compromise. That's why moderates are more electable, and why Hillary needs to be our nominee.