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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-06-09 08:05 PM
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48. Ugh. Dislike.


"Far Left"? "Blame America Crowd"??? "Environmental wackos"?

These aren't exactly centrist descriptives.
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  -Should The Democrats Purge The Conservatives and Moderates from The Party? Yavin4  Oct-05-09 09:01 PM   #0 
  - uh, how does one do this?  Teaser   Oct-05-09 09:03 PM   #1 
  - +1  onenote   Oct-05-09 09:06 PM   #2 
  - Do What The Club for Growth Did In The Republican Party  Yavin4   Oct-05-09 09:07 PM   #4 
     - And we have a Democratic majority in Congress as a result...  Clio the Leo   Oct-05-09 09:45 PM   #12 
     - Yes, We Do, But We Cannot Pass Meaningful Healthcare Legislation  Yavin4   Oct-05-09 10:43 PM   #15 
        - And you realize you had to include "meaningful".....  Clio the Leo   Oct-05-09 10:55 PM   #19 
           - Its not progress if I have to buy private insurance  quakerboy   Oct-06-09 01:03 AM   #26 
              - But we didn't. NT  Clio the Leo   Oct-06-09 08:00 AM   #34 
                 - David Wu did. He is one of us  quakerboy   Oct-06-09 10:55 PM   #54 
     - the club for growth has been singularly unsuccessful in knocking off incumbents  onenote   Oct-05-09 11:23 PM   #22 
     - That is acceptable  Engineer4Obama   Oct-06-09 07:50 AM   #31 
  - That depends  DrToast   Oct-05-09 09:07 PM   #3 
  - We Probably Could Not Do Better  Yavin4   Oct-05-09 09:11 PM   # 
  - How many lefties would we gain by not sucking up to the conservatives?  Forkboy   Oct-05-09 09:11 PM   #5 
  - Purging the moderates  Mz Pip   Oct-05-09 09:13 PM   #6 
  - That Is True. However....  Yavin4   Oct-05-09 09:16 PM   #7 
     - Okay, I'm all for  Mz Pip   Oct-05-09 09:37 PM   #10 
     - Hard to regain power unless you do allow the moderates in.  Jennicut   Oct-05-09 10:50 PM   #16 
  - No...  Raine   Oct-05-09 09:19 PM   #8 
  - And when people are pure in thought and spirit then they start to understand  Botany   Oct-05-09 09:20 PM   #9 
  - I am against all purges--including Blue Dogs and DLC pukes  IndianaGreen   Oct-05-09 09:41 PM   #11 
  - Purge no, but they should be elinmated where possible  SpartanDem   Oct-05-09 10:09 PM   #13 
  - if lieberman is too conservative for his state how did he get nearly 50 percent of the vote  onenote   Oct-05-09 11:27 PM   #23 
     - Because the Republicans basically backed Lieberman  Hippo_Tron   Oct-06-09 02:25 AM   #29 
        - thus proving my point  onenote   Oct-06-09 07:11 AM   #30 
           - Connecticut usually votes 6 to 4 Democratic in Presidential elections  Hippo_Tron   Oct-06-09 11:57 AM   #45 
  - We should purge the corporatists.  Sebastian Doyle   Oct-05-09 10:16 PM   #14 
  - Totally agree on that statement. Baucus represents the corporate view,  Jennicut   Oct-05-09 10:51 PM   #17 
  - Purge the corrupt who stand against the interests of their constituents  depakid   Oct-05-09 10:54 PM   #18 
  - It's not Conservative vs. Liberal, it's Corporatist vs. Populist.  ShortnFiery   Oct-05-09 11:13 PM   #20 
  - You aren't an incorporated person, yet?  boppers   Oct-06-09 12:11 AM   #24 
     - Thanks, interesting and informative.  ShortnFiery   Oct-06-09 07:53 AM   #32 
  - Moderate and Conservative Democrats  doc03   Oct-05-09 11:14 PM   #21 
  - "The far left?"  depakid   Oct-06-09 01:03 AM   #25 
     - Exactly like Dennis Kucinich and Nader  doc03   Oct-06-09 09:26 AM   #42 
        - Ugh. Dislike.  HughBeaumont   Oct-06-09 08:05 PM   #48 
  - Persuade moderates, Give conservatives the choice of mutual support or not  quakerboy   Oct-06-09 01:17 AM   #27 
  - Bump off a few conservatives and the rest will get in line  TheKentuckian   Oct-06-09 02:16 AM   #28 
  - No  ellie   Oct-06-09 07:55 AM   #33 
  - Only if we want to become the polarized party on the left that the right is now..  Peacetrain   Oct-06-09 08:05 AM   #35 
  - liberals who actually accomplish something would laugh there asses off at this suggestion  WI_DEM   Oct-06-09 08:26 AM   #36 
  - Before you answer - are you prepared to be EVIL and a CHILD MOLESTER, and...  TankLV   Oct-06-09 08:36 AM   #37 
  - telling the OP to go fuck himself? how classy tank.  dionysus   Oct-06-09 08:57 AM   #40 
  - The fucking TRUTH hurts, doesn't it!!!  TankLV   Oct-06-09 10:35 PM   #53 
  - This is the hate speech of the far left. Just as hateful as the far right.  ItNerd4life   Oct-06-09 12:42 PM   #46 
     - Sure it is...  TankLV   Oct-06-09 10:33 PM   #52 
  - No.  baldguy   Oct-06-09 08:40 AM   #38 
  - Perhaps we could just round up all the blue dog types, load them into  saltpoint   Oct-06-09 08:43 AM   #39 
  - What has been going on is the opposite of that  Bluenorthwest   Oct-06-09 09:19 AM   #41 
  - The left wing of the party does NOT represent the entire party.  Beacool   Oct-06-09 09:27 AM   #43 
  - Only if we want "Newt Revolution Part II"  scheming daemons   Oct-06-09 09:45 AM   #44 
  - Are you advocating purging the party of conservatives  Thothmes   Oct-06-09 07:15 PM   #47 
  - Conservatives have never been a majority of the country  WeDidIt   Oct-06-09 08:10 PM   #49 
  - I'm not sure who the "moderates" are.  AlinPA   Oct-06-09 08:12 PM   #50 
  - Simply primary the ones who do not represent their constituents.  Thickasabrick   Oct-06-09 08:30 PM   #51 
 

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