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Yallow

(1,926 posts)
Sun Sep 11, 2016, 02:27 PM Sep 2016

Do Democrats Deserve To Win Anything?

I am serious. What if it was Al Gore that ignored hundreds of warnings to allow 9-11. If Gore did absolutely nothing after the CIA told him an attack was imminent. Did nothing. Actually stayed on vacation (probably to remain safe).

The Republicans would have hung him on the White House lawn.

I have not seen one elected Democrat mention "ignored warnings" all week and it makes me sick.

We bend over backwards to let Republicans off the hook EVERY TIME. Democrats won't even mention The Bush Years, or The Bush Disaster. Not Hillary. None of her surrogates. Bush was a disaster by EVERY MEASURE and not a single Democrat ever thinks it is necessary to point it out. We don't deserve to win anything in my opinion. Sorry, but that is the way I feel. Democrats are even afraid to say the Republicans are sabotaging our economy to make Obama fail. It is a fact no one with a working brain could deny.

I understand presidents, and presidential candidates do not normally trash each other but surrogates?

If Democrats are to afraid to talk about how bad our last Republican President was, they don't deserve to hold office.

How hard should I want to fight for, donate to, door knock and make phone calls for and help people afraid of telling the truth?

Republicans go for the jugular every chance they get, even if they got nothing. That's half the reason they have The House, and the Senate.

Time to take the gloves off.

I know "the rules" say I can't trash Democrats.

I'm not. I'm trying to help them win elections.

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Do Democrats Deserve To Win Anything? (Original Post) Yallow Sep 2016 OP
Go on, buy a major media outlet unblock Sep 2016 #1
i read your post as someone who does not saltpoint Sep 2016 #2

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)
2. i read your post as someone who does not
Sun Sep 11, 2016, 02:36 PM
Sep 2016

like Republicans. But wait. I don't like Republicans as a recent inclination. I have disliked them since Nixon, and I was but a wee lad during that Kennedy-Nixon election.

I took note of how that election prompted sharp words in the grown-ups in my family.

I don't like Republicans and resent their skullduggerous triumphs, including the limited success of their hired hit-men like Donald Segretti, Howard Hunt, Lee Atwater, and Karl Rove; I resent their unholy alliance with far right religious kooks like Tony Perkins and Jim Dobson; and I resent their dominance and manipulation of the airwaves generally and of talk radio and cable news especially.

Democrats deserve to win because they aim generally to be public servants where Republicans aim for influence and control. The greater good does not figure into the GOP plan, at least not since Nixon.



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