"Van Haaften is running as a “blue dog” who supports gun rights and small business tax relief and opposes cap and trade, but he also supports Obamacare and opposes free trade."

Notice the conflect of interest between small business tax relief and Obamacare; tax relief replaced with a much larger tax.

The only time there is such a thing as a "Blue Dog" democrat is during the election cycle then once in office they have a history of falling into the party line and vote as they are told.

Van Haaften supports not only big government but appears to have his sights trained on private enterprise like the government take over of our health care system.

In my opinion there is no such thing as a "Blue Dog" just as there is no such thing as a liberal republican and both are just terms used to get elected then quickly forgotten until the next election cycle.

John R. Stanczak