"It has often been more important to them to support the candidate that comes closest to passing a 'purity test' than to consider which one would best protect and advance all progressive values."

Well Sid, that is their right (at least during primary season)--after all,they are single issue groups for a a reason. If they don't elevate their single issue, WTF will?

The problem with NOW (or rather the "problem with NOW" in this particular instance--to talk about "the" problem with NOW in the singular is an example of lunatic specificity) is that as much as any sane candiate can be said to pass their "purity test", Obama passes it. They have a perfect right to follow their single issue soul, and even a right to conclude that their single issue purposes were best served by Hillary rather than Obama.

What they don't have the right to do, is to sell the idea that the best way to achieve their single issue goals is to boycott the general election or advocate some sort of lemmings to the sea symbolic damning of both houses.

Since this is what Marcia Pappas is doing, she must be condemned as a Trojan Whore for the Republicans. The fact that she doesn't even realize the depth of her unspeakable crimes against common sne is only one more reason why she must be exposed for the lunatic that she is. Her sincerity is her greatest crime of all.