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brainshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-08-05 09:38 PM
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25. In the real world you will not get a chance in 2006.
You don't get it. On January 6th you lost 2006, 2008, 2010 and on and on.

I'm not saying that the Dems WOULD have won, or they COULD have won, or they SHOULD have won. I'm saying that by not trying to fight, they have doomed the party and probably killed Democracy in this country.

"Better to save our energies and fight another day" goes the excuse. But I just showed that if the DNC had used a modicum imagination and stuck to their principles the Republicans would have faced a lion instead of a mewling kitten.

By their inaction, the congressional Democrats have given a template to the Republicans on how to disenfranchise voters and get away with it.
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  -Math proves that Dems could have fought back on Jan 6th! brainshrub  Jan-08-05 03:28 PM   #0 
  - Even if Kerry had planned something  Democrat Dragon   Jan-08-05 03:38 PM   #1 
  - Assuming you're right, it just shows how much work has to be done.  brainshrub   Jan-08-05 03:42 PM   #3 
     - There is no "surrender"  Patchuli   Jan-08-05 10:43 PM   #34 
  - house and senate votes are on different matters  unblock   Jan-08-05 03:42 PM   #2 
  - Agreed 100%. But wouldn't it have been a glorious fight?  brainshrub   Jan-08-05 03:49 PM   #6 
  - No, it would have been a foolish fight.  mzmolly   Jan-08-05 10:10 PM   #28 
     - With Republicans it's ALWAYS "payback time."  brainshrub   Jan-08-05 11:24 PM   #36 
  - NO, house and senate votes both on Ohio objection...  k8conant   Jan-08-05 03:50 PM   #7 
     - i stand corrected, they clarified this in 1887  unblock   Jan-08-05 04:46 PM   #12 
        - see # 30 n/t  Wilms   Jan-08-05 10:18 PM   #31 
  - I've thought about what you wrote all the time....  Karenca   Jan-08-05 03:44 PM   #4 
  - politics isn't about math  imenja   Jan-08-05 03:44 PM   #5 
  - Politics is about winning.  brainshrub   Jan-08-05 03:58 PM   #8 
     - Why do you think the entire black caucus .. . .  imenja   Jan-08-05 04:06 PM   #9 
        - You don't understand what I'm trying to say.  brainshrub   Jan-08-05 08:35 PM   #21 
        - I see your point  imenja   Jan-08-05 09:00 PM   #24 
           - The only reason I'm still a Democrat today is because one Senator fought.  brainshrub   Jan-08-05 09:44 PM   #26 
           - I absolutely agree with you. I think there are many of them who have no  Amaryllis   Jan-08-05 10:17 PM   # 
        - I am also doing action. I am working with a number of groups in my city  Amaryllis   Jan-08-05 10:12 PM   #29 
           - Where does your group meet?  imenja   Jan-08-05 10:37 PM   #33 
              - Oregon. A lot of us that are working on this are finding each other.  Amaryllis   Jan-09-05 12:26 AM   #38 
  - Click here to change the system!  imenja   Jan-08-05 04:06 PM   #10 
  - Makes sense to me. Clearly the Dems were not thinking along these lines  spooked911   Jan-08-05 04:39 PM   #11 
  - A classic case of deeply ingrained institutional myopia.  brainshrub   Jan-08-05 08:23 PM   #20 
  - see #30. A factor may be missing in this equation. n/t  Wilms   Jan-08-05 10:20 PM   #32 
  - Randi Rhodes mentioned this too  TheGoldenRule   Jan-08-05 04:54 PM   #13 
  - Yes, and in a perfect world  forgethell   Jan-08-05 05:56 PM   #14 
  - Yeah, and what then?  Georgia_Dem   Jan-08-05 06:32 PM   #15 
  - The key seems to be in the law - I think I agree that a NO would have  higher class   Jan-08-05 06:49 PM   #16 
  - kick  genius   Jan-08-05 07:09 PM   #17 
  - Doubt it.  KSAtheist   Jan-08-05 07:09 PM   #18 
  - Dems are math challenged. They keep saying not enough to change results  Amaryllis   Jan-08-05 07:22 PM   #19 
  - So Blackwell *alone* could have done it...  O.M.B.inOhio   Jan-08-05 08:58 PM   #23 
     - You OH folks must feel a lot of kinship with FL voters. That argument  Amaryllis   Jan-08-05 10:07 PM   #27 
  - Aftermath- - - - Republican presidents for the rest of our lives.  seriousstan   Jan-08-05 08:37 PM   #22 
  - In the real world you will not get a chance in 2006.  brainshrub   Jan-08-05 09:38 PM   #25 
  - Wait a second...  Wilms   Jan-08-05 10:17 PM   #30 
     - The issue isn't whether Bush wins,  brainshrub   Jan-08-05 11:17 PM   #35 
        - Beg to differ.  Wilms   Jan-08-05 11:37 PM   #37 
 

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