We're with Tim DeChristopher on this, too

Via Grist.

It goes without saying that politics is a dirty system. It's so dirty that I believe there are only three reasonable approaches to politics: apathy/despair, overthrowing the system, or playing dirty to win...

[T]his is actually about the third option, playing dirty, and it's intended for those of you who intend to vote next year. I know lots of smart, engaged people who don't participate in politics because they don't want to play dirty. I understand their position as a sensible one. What I don't understand is the large percentage of liberals who avidly engage with the political system but refuse to win.

His analysis is smart and coherent, and he takes on the "What are you going to do, vote for someone worse than Obama?" argument that we hear so much.

For the record, we're not going to vote for someone worse than Obama. We're not going to vote at all, unless there is a huge shift in the candidate pool. Obama is a spineless mess of a President, not the President we hoped to elect by donating large-for-us sums of money to his campaign. Not the President we hoped would select a reasonable person to run the Department of Interior instead of Cowboy Ken Salazar and his Posse of Oil & Gasbags. Not the President who makes hard decisions instead of punting them (e.g. Keystone Pipeline).

We had such high hopes.

Thank you, Tim DeChristopher. You've got our vote.