look- politicians will turn on a dime if they think their precious offices are at stake. if they think all they have to do is pay lip service to some bloggers then that's all they'll do.
there is a vast space between just paying lip service and expecting the universe to change on its axis. my point is dont expect it to go from lipservice to your wish list- most likely it will be somewhere in between.
If you decide in advance that you'll settle for half a loaf, all you'll wind up with is the heel.
And if you tell DLC NeoDems that you're not going to push them to the wall, they'll push you back down the well. It took a long time for RealDems to crawl out of that well. We're just on the lip of it now and still dripping and I don't want o go back down it just because some are worried about reforming the party too fast.
