A reminder of the tensions on the left

This was drafted a few months ago but seems still relevant.

Unions Cut Donations to Democrats - Some of the nation's largest labor unions are dramatically cutting their donations to the Democratic Party, saying they are frustrated with the Democrats for failing to put up strong resistance to Republican proposals that are opposed by labor, such as the efforts to eliminate collective-bargaining rights for public-sector workers.From a Daily Beast Email
 

This is great. Democrats need this wake up call. It is not that the unions are so clean and righteous, but that the callousness toward the hardest hit has been more evenly spread among the powerful than Democratic officeholders like to admit.

Naturally this gives rise to the fact that the Democrats are the only thing between us and the cliff beyond which lies the destruction of what we have left by the rapacious and callous and mentally-challenged GOP.

Therefore it behooves candidates of all parties to minimally support the President. I would vote for a GOP candidate who supported Obama. Why not? It does not matter. The President is a centrist who genuinely desires the best outcome and who experiments as we all must because no solution is perfect and some turn out to be stupid. Obama is the nation's best hope and electing Obama supporters in both parties is the only sensible course for 2012.

Good for The Unions Smack the Dems