I appreciate your reply and I should have referred in my previous post not "why are the democrats so willing to put blinders on...." but "why are liberals.....". I apologize for that. As a Republican, I agree with your thinking about voting the person, not the party. I know many Democrats who feel as you do. I hope for the sake of your party and the country, that one of the Democratic governors as you describe does step out. Those in your party deserve a better choice of candidates. Heck, I might even take a look at a candidate like that! Actually, that is what I have been trying to say all along - wouldn't it be great to have 2 upstanding, proven leaders with integrity from which to choose - one from each party? With the moral degeneration of politics as a whole over the last few decades, it almost seems too much to ask.