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In reply to the discussion: Who more "progressive" do you want nominated, then explain just how he/she gets 270 electoral votes. [View all]Iggo
(47,552 posts)30. Support is a funny word, especially around here.
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Who more "progressive" do you want nominated, then explain just how he/she gets 270 electoral votes. [View all]
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
OP
I'd bet they don't pull it Left. Extortion is recognized by oppo, which uses the weakening effect of
patrice
Dec 2011
#115
Those who think that are hyperbolic non-realists who'd waste votes on Nader. Nuff said.
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#57
Right, and we all know how valid conventional wisdom is: e.g. Invasion & Occupation of Iraq; Deregul
patrice
Dec 2011
#116
OK, please explain exactly how Dennis Kucinich could win. (I think you need to find the planet.)
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#56
Can you please name me a Democrat that Fox would not call an extreme leftist?
Bjorn Against
Dec 2011
#97
fact is it matters what fox says. even more so it matters what RW radio says to 50 mil a week
certainot
Dec 2011
#134
it's not a matter of winning their support. we let them decide where the center is and how the
certainot
Dec 2011
#142
Yes I am willing to take a few hits if we can turn that into progress.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#12
I'm sure most people are so disgusted with both parties that they don't bother to vote.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#17
I don't know whether that would have happened under a Gore or Kerry Administration
MNBrewer
Dec 2011
#159
Then they have no need to bitch a single syllable. And they can go back to the sandbox and play.
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#60
Does "few hits" include people suffering & dying from lack of appropriate health care,
patrice
Dec 2011
#117
yes exactly. I am sick and tired of getting more of the same and being told I should be happy
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#45
So? All of us have lists of things that we do, despite being "sick and tired" of them.
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#81
yes I do - did you have a point, or are you just making thinly veiled threats?
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#14
The Goldwater splinterization was precisely what enabled Democrats to pass the great society.
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#75
And it won't even necessarily do that! It REALLY could drive them in the opposite direction from
patrice
Dec 2011
#118
what he's saying is true after Obama's next 4 years: who will secure the D win then? It is an open
StarsInHerHair
Dec 2011
#143
at least be honest. You made a threat. And now you are making another one.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#52
yeah these supporters have gone way over the edge now alerting on threads that do not deserve it
StarsInHerHair
Dec 2011
#144
"... don't we?" Oh come on, almost no one posts under his/her real name around here, who knows
patrice
Dec 2011
#123
So have you and yours. You have established and full throatedly supported a death spiral
TheKentuckian
Dec 2011
#72
They have no answer for you. They'd rather froth at the mouth than deal with reality.
MjolnirTime
Dec 2011
#5
It's not a broad brush. It applies to a very small, very vocal group of Obama deriders.
MjolnirTime
Dec 2011
#7
Sure, there are plenty of non-socialist liberals. But most of them support Obama for re-election.
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#78
You've read DU wrong. People here accept he will be the nominee, they just wish he was more liberal
bettyellen
Dec 2011
#8
You can "wish" for it to rain ham sandwiches too. Someone "more liberal" CAN NOT WIN THE ELECTION.
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#55
your opinions amuse me. But your angry tone make me hope you're not out there stumpimg.
bettyellen
Dec 2011
#61
I think the saddest thing is that we DID elect a someone more liberal. Then he showed his true
aka-chmeee
Dec 2011
#80
I cannot imagine how anyone could have taken candidate Obama for anything like a Liberal.
patrice
Dec 2011
#120
We could always make the claim that he is actually MORE Liberal than how he presented himself, with
patrice
Dec 2011
#131
Do you think not knowing about the Derivative Crash of '08 might have had an effect upon
patrice
Dec 2011
#121
Tell me what he was supposed to do about what he DIDN'T KNOW about that crash.
patrice
Dec 2011
#154
So do that and Utah, Idaho, Alabama, Texas, and Mississippi are going to turn bright blue? Ya right.
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#62
I'm thinking Gov. Brian Schweitzer or Elizabeth Warren in 2016. It's way too late
Zorra
Dec 2011
#29
Remember now that Schweitzer is gun advocate. No where near a purist "progressive." But I agree
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#64
well that was the other part of your argument that was insulting and silly.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#67
The focus on personalities instead of principles and issues is the problem, not the solution
saras
Dec 2011
#36
You know, most of us aren't proud of the system. We know what it is and that's why we disagree
patrice
Dec 2011
#132
OBVIOUSLY this is not plausible in 2012. There is no choice but to support Obama's reelction
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2011
#38
I'm sick of voting for the best reformer of capitalism, to be honest. nt
Modern_Matthew
Dec 2011
#43
So? Lots of people do things they are sick of. Just because you are sick of something does not mean
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#79
But it doesn't apply to most people. It merely applies to people whose definition of "change"
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#96
It doesn't need to be 1980 for it to be true that capitalism isn't going anywhere.
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#161
Even if those people were President, they'd still be President of the same country
treestar
Dec 2011
#66
Few who criticize policy would want to elect a 'red communist' and that sort of tripe is what
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2011
#90
A more progressive candidate will be nominated. But, he/she probably won't win.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2011
#70
I will tell you how we win, by not giving up and letting you tell us that we can't win.
Bjorn Against
Dec 2011
#95
If Sanders, Kucinich, Brown or Grayson were in the running, I'd be like "Obama who?".
NorthCarolina
Dec 2011
#104
Democratic approval for President Obama is consistently around 80% on Gallup.
CakeGrrl
Dec 2011
#125
I'll do you one better: I'll show you how a liberal/progressive can get 365 electoral votes...
DRoseDARs
Dec 2011
#107
A union supporter who will de-militarize our foreign and domestic policies ...
T S Justly
Dec 2011
#111
If the midterms are any indication, making a smug point is a victory in itself to these guys
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#149
People shouldn't vote based on whether or not they think that person can get 270 electoral votes
Cali_Democrat
Dec 2011
#151
I believe that Somebody who would fight FOR these Progressive Policies & Issues:
bvar22
Dec 2011
#164