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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-22-10 02:16 PM
Response to Reply #32
33. I called her a "bizarro teabagger," meaning just like a teabagger but on the opposite side.
She'd rather be a purist on the left and not compromise ANYTHING-just like the teabaggers on the right.
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  -FDL- "They sell old Ralph Nader wine in new shiny-bloggy bottles. " NJmaverick  Jun-22-10 08:17 AM   #0 
  - Glad to see people are finally waking up to what Hamsher has been up to.  Raine1967   Jun-22-10 08:24 AM   #1 
  - This is a confused criticism: on the one hand, complaining FDL pushes a Ralph Nader line; on the  struggle4progress   Jun-22-10 09:05 AM   #9 
     - The diary said they didn't care that she worked with Norquist.  Raine1967   Jun-22-10 09:15 AM   #10 
     - FDL didn't split the party.  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 10:02 AM   #13 
     - I never said FDL did.  Raine1967   Jun-22-10 10:35 AM   #17 
        - The party is already split. It has been for decades.  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 02:08 PM   #31 
     - Dunno: you may be right about FDL, but I think exactly the same  struggle4progress   Jun-22-10 10:19 AM   #14 
        - I didn't cite any post except the one in the OP.  Raine1967   Jun-22-10 10:33 AM   #16 
           - Apologies if I was unclear: I meant reference to the links in the OP  struggle4progress   Jun-22-10 11:09 AM   #21 
     - Ralph Nader accepts right-wing support and money; there is no contradiction there.  LoZoccolo   Jun-22-10 10:36 AM   #18 
        - For decades, Nader has warned about "corporations as people"  struggle4progress   Jun-22-10 11:07 AM   #20 
        - Obama gives hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars to Wall Street  brentspeak   Jun-22-10 04:45 PM   #48 
  - That's terrible....  vi5   Jun-22-10 08:27 AM   #2 
  - I get the feeling that she is saying you can't be a Progressive  Raine1967   Jun-22-10 08:30 AM   #3 
  - Other than putting out a plea to raise money to push for progressive issues...  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 02:01 PM   #28 
  - Actually, it's probably the other way around  ProudDad   Jun-22-10 08:48 PM   #54 
  - Nothing new in her world.  Jennicut   Jun-22-10 08:30 AM   #4 
  - I would prefer progressives like Hamsher go away  demhistorian   Jun-22-10 08:40 AM   #5 
  - What is a "progressive?"  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 02:04 PM   #30 
  - What's next, Loyalty Oaths? This so reminds me of how the ADA purged the Progressives in '48  leveymg   Jun-22-10 08:45 AM   #6 
  - Thanks.  jefferson_dem   Jun-22-10 08:46 AM   #7 
  - I've long thought Hamsher an opportunist and not what she bills  volvoblue   Jun-22-10 08:48 AM   #8 
  - OMG-  depakid   Jun-22-10 09:19 AM   #11 
  - What "hint" should I be getting?  NJmaverick   Jun-22-10 09:22 AM   #12 
  - Bill Halter is not Ralph Nader  Enrique   Jun-22-10 10:22 AM   #15 
  - She's a bizarro teabagger. n/t  jenmito   Jun-22-10 10:57 AM   #19 
  - She really doesn't seem that different.  Raine1967   Jun-22-10 11:51 AM   #22 
  - I agree.  jenmito   Jun-22-10 12:18 PM   #24 
  - What makes her a teabagger?  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 02:09 PM   #32 
     - I called her a "bizarro teabagger," meaning just like a teabagger but on the opposite side.  jenmito   Jun-22-10 02:16 PM   #33 
        - I don't think you understand what activists do.  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 02:28 PM   #35 
           - So you support teabaggers and Jane Hamsher because you consider them "activists"?  jenmito   Jun-22-10 02:52 PM   #37 
              - I support Jane on many of her inititiaves because they align with my  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 03:01 PM   #38 
              - So you support Jane trying to tear apart the Dem. party? n/t  jenmito   Jun-22-10 03:05 PM   #39 
                 - I don't believe that she is tearing apart the Democratic Party.  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 03:24 PM   #40 
                 - No-the DLC is part of the Dem. "big tent." Jane would rather a Repub. win than a Dem. who's not  jenmito   Jun-22-10 03:30 PM   #41 
                    - That's crap.  PassingFair   Jun-22-10 09:04 PM   #55 
                 - jen, the Party is perfectly willing to do this itself.  Forkboy   Jun-22-10 03:54 PM   #44 
                    - No, it isn't. Purity advocates like FDL are.  stevenleser   Jun-22-10 05:23 PM   #49 
                       - FDL and Hamsher haven't kicked anyone out of their coalition. She hasn't the power.  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 05:46 PM   #50 
                       - Missing the forest for the trees, Steven.  Forkboy   Jun-22-10 05:53 PM   #51 
              - I have great sympathy for the tea-baggers  ProudDad   Jun-22-10 10:03 PM   #59 
  - I haven't trusted Hamsher since an NPR interview of the Texas teabagger lady.  Tarheel_Dem   Jun-22-10 12:16 PM   #23 
  - Same with me.  great white snark   Jun-22-10 12:32 PM   #25 
  - A teabagger claimed that, did she? Teabaggers also claim that Obama  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 02:04 PM   #29 
  - Nope, not going to engage you.  Tarheel_Dem   Jun-22-10 02:22 PM   #34 
     - John Podesta & Wes Clark partner with Norquist in this organization...  Luminous Animal   Jun-22-10 02:40 PM   #36 
     - Perhaps you could prove your points.  Forkboy   Jun-22-10 03:55 PM   #45 
     - Self delete. Wrong Spot.  Tarheel_Dem   Jun-22-10 04:13 PM   #46 
        - It was the perfect spot to prove your point.  Forkboy   Jun-22-10 05:54 PM   #52 
  - Agreed  ProudDad   Jun-22-10 09:59 PM   #58 
  - bless Jane's heart  AtomicKitten   Jun-22-10 12:34 PM   #26 
  - Unfortunately, it's *new* Ralph nader wine.  Orsino   Jun-22-10 01:10 PM   #27 
  - Who?  Radical Activist   Jun-22-10 03:39 PM   #42 
  - Why hamshire is often the spokesperson for the "left" on places like MSNBC,  mzmolly   Jun-22-10 03:49 PM   #43 
  - Stupid OP  brentspeak   Jun-22-10 04:28 PM   #47 
  - Burning the Village in Order to Save it Rarely Works  PopSixSquish   Jun-22-10 08:25 PM   #53 
  - delete  depakid   Jun-22-10 09:11 PM   #56 
  - There seem to be some serious Axis II issues over at FDL.  saltpoint   Jun-22-10 09:26 PM   #57 
 

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