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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 04:30 PM
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23. They're battered women
Simple as that.

Every battered woman starts out with a support group, some of whom urge her to stay with her abuser and formulate "strategies" to get the man to change- or to slowly work into a situation where things will be better.

In the vast majority of cases, that doesn't work.

What does work is when women get assertive, prosecute the abusers, stop listening to the enablers and physically leave the situation.

To that end- I've come to the conclusion that ridding the party of DINOS (like the above mentioned) needs to be PRIORITY #1- even if in the short term that means handing the seat to a Republican....
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