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Fri Aug 10, 2012, 09:35 AM

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47. More likely in.....

.... protective custody

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115 replies	Author	Time	Post
Politico: Obama to include Republicans in hard-hitting convention [View all]	Adenoid_Hynkel	Aug 2012	OP
By Golly, I think the Democrats have learned how to play politics	brooklynite	Aug 2012	#1
Sure feels good	lillypaddle	Aug 2012	#3
Now if they'd only govern that way	catbyte	Aug 2012	#27
If democrats would "govern that way" they wouldn't need republcans up on the stage because the	Citizen Worker	Aug 2012	#79
I know that a popular narrative ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#102
It's Obama, he is the difference, I've been waiting all my life for this.	bemildred	Aug 2012	#56
Wow. If they could get John Warner to speak - that'd be huge.	Drunken Irishman	Aug 2012	#2
Or get five or six shots of Cuervo down John McCain	Ken Burch	Aug 2012	#6
i'd pay to see that	barbtries	Aug 2012	#20
So would I, but I'd pay even more money if McCain was asked about Palin and her crazy family. n/t	amandabeech	Aug 2012	#110
and Palin	unapatriciated	Aug 2012	#24
You'd want to make sure she wasn't packing before you brought in the Cuervo, though.	Ken Burch	Aug 2012	#95
100% agree	Inuca	Aug 2012	#10
No, "huge" would be if they dig up ronnies moldy stinking corpse	Autumn	Aug 2012	#86
Can you still FIND "Centrist Republican Leaders"?	Ken Burch	Aug 2012	#4
they are easy to find	2pooped2pop	Aug 2012	#13
Yes, but they're much more welcome at the Democratic National Convention	alcibiades_mystery	Aug 2012	#40
Yes ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#104
More likely in.....	sendero	Aug 2012	#47
Oh, yes. They're parked by the window at the nursing home.	sofa king	Aug 2012	#52
Blue Dog Dems	harun	Aug 2012	#91
Collins or Snowe	Maine-ah	Aug 2012	#98
I wonder if it's possible to get Snow to either endorse Obama	Ken Burch	Aug 2012	#99
Snowe is retiring but Collins remains in the Senate for the time being.	amandabeech	Aug 2012	#109
Democrats look to Snowe in search for GOP moderate to speak at national convention	Maine-ah	Aug 2012	#114
Maybe this time she'll actually come through unlike her almost-support of ACA.	amandabeech	Aug 2012	#115
Centrist is a relative concept.	hay rick	Aug 2012	#105
Kick & R n/t	Dalai_1	Aug 2012	#5
If the President can embrace progressive Republicans shouldn't the rest of us do that. too?	marble falls	Aug 2012	#7
Yes, we should!	jamesatemple	Aug 2012	#8
yes	2pooped2pop	Aug 2012	#11
No. There is no reason for a "progressive" to be an R	bread_and_roses	Aug 2012	#12
http://www.progressiverepublicans.org/progressive.html There's more to it than you may think ....	marble falls	Aug 2012	#15
Women.	Freddie	Aug 2012	#31
Add #2, #9 and #10 To That List	DallasNE	Aug 2012	#32
Why waste your energy and just join the Democratic Party?	olegramps	Aug 2012	#33
OMFG look at #5	bread_and_roses	Aug 2012	#39
So do you dig #5?	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#57
5 is dead wrong. Racism is real and it has certainly reared its ugly head this year. .....	marble falls	Aug 2012	#111
sure...but	barbtries	Aug 2012	#21
How To Find Progressive Republicans	Vogon_Glory	Aug 2012	#30
Selectively, very selectively	primavera	Aug 2012	#61
Could you name a "Progressive" Republican?	Bandit	Aug 2012	#74
It is hard enough finding "Progressive" Dems	harun	Aug 2012	#92
I'll pass on that	Autumn	Aug 2012	#76
How far right has the Democratic party gone?	fasttense	Aug 2012	#9
in what way does President Obama ignore the 99%?	Whisp	Aug 2012	#16
It's very clear to me what the battle will be in one to two years.	randome	Aug 2012	#17
Except in reality, the actual fact is that there is NO 'Tea Party' it is just a caucuss of the	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#60
Just because they don't 'list' themselves as 'Tea Party' doesn't mean they aren't a separate entity.	randome	Aug 2012	#72
Really! And this gives cover for moving the Democratic party even farther to the Right.	RC	Aug 2012	#25
Go so far that they rumor	Broderick	Aug 2012	#63
"Progressive Republican"	riverwalker	Aug 2012	#14
Last one was Robert LaFollette	Ken Burch	Aug 2012	#101
Brilliant. Heh, I wonder if Reid's source is one of them.	berni_mccoy	Aug 2012	#18
Let's see,	Bohunk68	Aug 2012	#19
There is a long game being played here.	randome	Aug 2012	#23
This is just stuffing more Conservatives into the Democrat's "Big Tent".	RC	Aug 2012	#29
The working classed screwed their selves.	olegramps	Aug 2012	#43
We cannont gain ground with an implacable enemy.	randome	Aug 2012	#44
The Rs are a lost cause, what reaching out to the Rs does is ...	Cosmocat	Aug 2012	#34
The convention must show the CHOICE in this election, & yes, this is about swaying the swing voters.	RBInMaine	Aug 2012	#36
How do you explain Republicans acknowledging their party is bullshit these days?	randome	Aug 2012	#42
Ah so you see what they say about the President to be equaled by what Democrats say?	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#62
Four years is not long enough to win a 3 decade battle.	randome	Aug 2012	#71
Who, WHAT?	Cosmocat	Aug 2012	#64
Sorry, I skimmed your post too quickly. My apologies.	randome	Aug 2012	#69
Man	Cosmocat	Aug 2012	#93
Agreed	Freddie	Aug 2012	#38
In large groups, many subgroups of voters can be easily misled.	randome	Aug 2012	#45
How many cross over votes in the first term of constant reach around or across? Two?	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#46
I think a situation is building in Congress where we will get more votes from Republicans.	randome	Aug 2012	#49
Hey, no one suggested anything like a 'magic wand' you were simply asked for facts to support	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#55
I'm saying that 4 years is not long enough to see those votes.	randome	Aug 2012	#58
Those Republicans are not disavowing they are just being lightly critical.	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#66
The Tea Party is ousting Republican incumbents.	randome	Aug 2012	#68
Again, there is no Tea Party. Incumbent Republicans are losing Primary elections to other	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#78
I think the plan is to reach independent voters rather than crossover legislators.	LanternWaste	Aug 2012	#70
2010 we got crushed in a wave election thanks to trying so hard to accommodate the GOP	MessiahRp	Aug 2012	#106
Huntsman?	Thrill	Aug 2012	#22
Right now the Romney Camp is scurrying around trying to find a Democrat that they can use.	grantcart	Aug 2012	#26
I hear Zell Miller is still alive	n2doc	Aug 2012	#50
They don't have to scurry around..	raindaddy	Aug 2012	#54
Richard Lugar, John Danforth And Chuck Hagel Would Be Good Choices	DallasNE	Aug 2012	#28
I currently and always have liked Chuck Hagel	alcibiades_mystery	Aug 2012	#41
Good ! More more more ! Democrats need to learn how to FIGHT again ! Like FDR, HST, and JFK !!	RBInMaine	Aug 2012	#35
Can anyone name a 'centrist Republican' at all, much less a 'centrist Republican leader'?	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#37
Third Way Manny	UnrepentantLiberal	Aug 2012	#48
How much more could Romney "devastate the middle class"	Beacool	Aug 2012	#51
Hey Beacool. good to see you	Autumn	Aug 2012	#81
Exactly!!!	Beacool	Aug 2012	#83
Since when do "independents" care about political conventions?	high density	Aug 2012	#53
Totally agree	Broderick	Aug 2012	#65
This isn't "embracing" Republicans or their ideology; it's a smart political tactic	NYC Liberal	Aug 2012	#59
Can you share examples of when this happened before and what the results were?	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#67
Here's the thing --	NYC Liberal	Aug 2012	#73
Not to be rude, but I was asking for the actual examples. You said this had worked before	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#80
As long as they don't re-enforce Repuke ideas and..	mvd	Aug 2012	#82
2004 when the Republicans had Zell Miller and Ed Koch.	NYC Liberal	Aug 2012	#89
The return of the Blue Dogs	SansACause	Aug 2012	#75
About time	Hula Popper	Aug 2012	#77
This is absolutely necessary to sustain the propaganda we are steeped in from birth,	woo me with science	Aug 2012	#84
+1	harun	Aug 2012	#94
Helps reinforce the reality that the GOP has gone stark raving mad.	JoePhilly	Aug 2012	#85
I think some repuke heads will explode over this.	freshwest	Aug 2012	#100
That tells me which direction Obama wants to go in a second term	DJ13	Aug 2012	#87
I'll raise you one	Autumn	Aug 2012	#88
Good,	EC	Aug 2012	#90
Who they got? Zell Miller and Joe LIEberman?	Liberal_Stalwart71	Aug 2012	#96
I think even Lieberman knows to stay away from the Willard trainwreck	Adenoid_Hynkel	Aug 2012	#97
This is a brilliant move by the Obama campaign staff.	Equate	Aug 2012	#103
I'm okay with this IF there is a primetime slot for a hardcore progressive one of the nights as well	MessiahRp	Aug 2012	#107
Lieberman, really?	tomm2thumbs	Aug 2012	#108
That's it. I'm out.	alarimer	Aug 2012	#112
I'm with you.	eilen	Aug 2012	#113

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