Gaear Grimsrud: Nobody on this website is a DNC apparatchik. If you are a DNC apparatchik, you should be saying the same sorts of things that User#1353/User#6086/User#8957 are saying, and you would be correct, because by all objective standards, unions are nowhere as powerful as corporations, cannot oppress people nearly as much as corporations, and their corruption is accordingly less consequential.

But come on, this is a discussion. Democrats can be mad that this guy gave us a bad reputation. Democrats can criticize some fat f*ck for being corrupt without being accused of being the class enemy smearing their white privilege feces over the proletariat, or whatever you liberal arts majors say.

Brandonius Maximus: The smart answer would be something like "I'm a Begich Democrat," and then talk about your independence.

Monsieur: The Dem nominee will almost certainly win the LG race against the Alan Keyes-like Republican candidate too, theoretically setting them up well for the future (especially helpful if Warner gets bored with the Senate).

There's no way he said those things with a straight face!