I found the above quote this morning on the Facebook page of Jason Thigpen, the North Carolina Republican-turned-progressive Democrat running for the House seat occupied by Walter Jones.
The Republican civil war is pretty front and center and getting quite a lot of media attention. There is also something of a Democratic civil war brewing, a more ideological/less careerist based one. You may have seen sparks of it last week when the Wall Street owned ConservaDem group, Third Way, went on the attack against Elizabeth Warren and the progressive populism she espouses. Third Way, the Blue Dogs and the New Dems are the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.
I've been spending some time on the phone with South Dakota's Democratic Senate candidate Rick Weiland and with some of his staffers. This week Digby and John Amato are meeting with him to complete the Blue America vetting process and I have no doubt our PAC will be endorsing him. He's a very impressive guy and a dedicated down-to-earth populist.
