Why don't Democrats won't tolerate moderates in their party?

For such a great debater when in any of your response did you even attempt to answer Taskr discussion.

Gew, I am sorry if you don't like my post (well I really am not sorry, personally I could careless how you feel), do you need me to explain what I wrote? I know that sometimes I use big words, and talk about things that may go over your simple mind. But, if you need help keeping up, please let me know and I will try to help you out.

I don't know what interviews he did on Fox News at the time because I was too busy for television then. His voting records was still heavily democratic, with a low of 75%, whereas Specter's voting record as a republican was 42% last year, with a lifetime record of 44.47%. Jim Jeffords wasn't kicked out of the party or anything. He just changed from Republican to independent. That pissed people off because it cost the Republicans their majority in the senate. Either way, he wasn't really a republican so it was the right choice for him. His lifetime voting record was only 27%, further evidence that Republicans are more willing to accept moderate members. There are mixed reactions to Specter, because he had a 50/50 voting record for the most part so people don't expect his votes to change. Some are mad just because this means a decrease in the number of republicans, but I think that part is meaningless. Then others are offended because he really hasn't changed, he's just an opportunist that decided he'd have a better chance of getting reelected if he changed his party to democrat.

"With all due respect, I'm afraid we have different definitions of "moderates" and "extremists". " We do, but your definition changes according to your argument. You said that Senators Collins and Snowe from Maine were moderates. They are republicans who voted with Democrats 75% and 80% of the time last year. If we were to stick with your definition, you would have to say that there are ZERO moderates in the democratic party since no democrat voted with republicans that often. "I could say that since there are so many more Democrats than there are Republicans it would stand to reason that there would be more of them voting with their party." For that argument to hold water there would have to be 16 times as many senators in the democratic party. In fact, for it to hold any semblance of water there would have to be more moderates in the democrats as well and clearly, that is not the case. "there have been many examples in the GOP of a moderate being thrown off the bus." Why don't you show me these "MANY" examples Annie? "why is it they forced McCain to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate instead of the ones he wanted, reportedly Lieberman or Tom Ridge, who actually is a somewhat moderate Republican?" I don't believe that anyone forced McCain to choose Palin at all. I think that's just a load of crap contrived to turn more people against Sarah Palin. Tom Ridge would have guaranteed McCain a loss in the election. He would have been as meaningless to the Republican ticket as Biden was to the Democrat's ticket. Lieberman would have been a longshot. I ranked him third behind Palin and Romney for the VP choices with the best chance of helping McCain win. Besides those three, NOBODY else could have helped him win, or even raised his numbers for as long as Sarah Palin did.