He'll Still Win.

The fact remains that most Democrats are bad Democrats. Obama can sell out the entire Democratic party platform, and will still get votes from the vast majority of Democrats. Republicans can't do that as much (though, to be fair, the only part of the GOP platform that is in any way sound is: tax cuts for the rich).

So long as this is true Democratic politicians will continue to sell out their base for political gain from the right. The part where this becomes really frustrating, however, is when selling out the base makes things worse for the country in real sense, because that does more harm to election prospects than whatever few right of center votes the Dem manages to pick off. As such: cutting spending during a recession is bad, and should be called out as such. Tax cuts for the rich--almost any time but particularly when money is tight and the rich are doing quite well--is bad and should be avoided at all costs (it was not).