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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 02:06 AM
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One way DLC may be right about their ''electable'' candidates
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I am kind of haunted by the "Dean Scream," how the media was able to knock Howard down for absolutely nothing. Although the DLC corporate candidates have no natural constituency, their "business friendly" credentials could get them preferential treatments in the media in the primaries and have progressive opponents painted as goofballs or just plain ignored, as happened with Dennis Kucinich after he took Ted Koppel to task in a debate for asking dumb-ass beauty pageant questions.

Am I worrying too much?

If not, what can be done to counteract this?

Or is the public developing an immunity to this asinine shit?
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  -One way DLC may be right about their ''electable'' candidates yurbud  Dec-12-05 02:06 AM   #0 
  - I hear what you're saying...  Fridays Child   Dec-12-05 02:18 AM   #1 
  - Have you seen the freaks on the right lately?  rucky   Dec-12-05 02:23 AM   #2 
  - I wouldn't advocate kowtowing in any case  yurbud   Dec-12-05 02:38 AM   #4 
  - just because they are "right" in this sense, doesn't make them right.  sojourner   Dec-12-05 02:37 AM   #3 
  - I'm not implying surrender--just ruminating on how it will play out  yurbud   Dec-12-05 02:40 AM   #5 
     - count on it...but if grass roots is strong it won't be quite so effective  sojourner   Dec-12-05 02:48 AM   #7 
  - I'm tired of playing by their rules  RagingInMiami   Dec-12-05 02:45 AM   #6 
  - I don't think we should play by their rules. This is more like watching  yurbud   Dec-12-05 02:56 AM   #9 
  - Howard Dean was railroaded. By the Rethugs, the media, and DLC.  Cascadian   Dec-12-05 02:55 AM   #8 
  - If cheerleading ability made you a good president, Bush would be great  yurbud   Dec-12-05 03:06 AM   #13 
  - Dean in 08.  Crazy Guggenheim   Dec-12-05 02:56 AM   #10 
  - To be fair, Dean knocked himself down.  TheWraith   Dec-12-05 02:58 AM   #11 
  - Dean's comment about South was accurate, but you're right about DK  yurbud   Dec-12-05 03:08 AM   #14 
  - Because, after all, the media were so kind to the corporate-friendly  6000eliot   Dec-12-05 02:59 AM   #12 
     - when it gets down to corporate friendly and corporate OWNED  yurbud   Dec-12-05 03:09 AM   #15 
        - True. Repubs will always have the advantage  6000eliot   Dec-12-05 03:29 AM   #16 
           - problem is just having two major parties in congress and ONLY two for prez  yurbud   Dec-12-05 03:56 AM   #17 
 

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