September 10, 2010 12:25 AM UTC

In a Quandry Over Michael Bennet

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• by: madmike

( – promoted by DavidThi808)

I’m really struggling with what to do about Sen. Michael Bennet.  Nine months ago, before I learned where he was getting his money and how that was influencing his votes, I was a Bennet supporter.  I even attended a caucus training session for Bennet.  Then, when I came to the realization that he was a corporate sellout and that his call for a public healthcare option was a nothing more than a cheap political ploy, I switched my allegiance to Andrew Romanoff.  Then came the primary and Bennet won.  “OK,” I said to myself, “I won’t work for Bennet and won’t give him any money (he gets enough from the banks and the oil companies anyway), but I’ll hold my nose and vote for him in November.

Then yesterday Sen. Bennet announced that he would not support President Obama’s plan for more stimulus spending on infrastructure improvements.  But he would support the myriad of business tax breaks contained in the plan.  In other words, forget about putting people back to work, but make sure your corporate donors get their share of the pie.  And I thought to myself, “That’s it.  I’m not voting for this schmuck!”  That’s where I was when I went to bed last night.

Then this morning I thought about it some more and decided that I am really in a quandry about what to do about Michael Bennet.  As I see it, right now I have three choices: a) hold my nose and vote for Bennet; b) write in Andrew Romanoff or somebody else, or: c) not vote for anybody (since there’s no way in hell I would ever vote for Buck).

I consider myself a progressive, but I’m not sure that I consider myself a Democrat any longer.  I’m thinking seriously about changing my party affiliation to Independent.  And I am of the belief that Sen. Bennet is assuming that the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is going to vote for him no matter what because they really don’t have any other choice.  And I really hate to think that my vote is being taken for granted.

So right now I am undecided about what I am going to do come November.  And I am hoping that somebody out there will offer me some bit of wisdom that will help me make  a decision about what to do.  I’m really fed up!

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