Is Monica Lewinsky's blue dress a relevant issue when discussing Hillary Clinton?

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70. I'm not Sid (or Skinner) but the left tends to cleave

between those who are interested in what can be done, and those that seem more interested in posturing and asserting their sterling principals.

It's not unlike the schism that John Boehner has to deal with.

One group isn't any more leftwing than the other--indeed a person can be a clear-eyed dedicated socialist while recognizing that the institutions, power dynamics, voting patterns, etc in this country do not lend themselves to a lot of overnight change--the constitution was created to resist change, not create it, after all.

So, I don't think of it as left-baiting so much as describing those who are only interested in being a voice of opposition--never wanting the burden of governing, which inevitably means that icky compromise thing.

Indeed, the so-called squishy pragmatists are rarely the ones who say stuff like "we'd have been better off if McCain had won" or expressing indifference between democrats and republican policy platforms.