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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn underwhelmed question, Senator COLLINS, why are you even a Repuke anyway?!1
The eternal questions: Why does any minority be a Repuke - gender, ethnic, whatever.
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An underwhelmed question, Senator COLLINS, why are you even a Repuke anyway?!1 (Original Post)
UTUSN
Aug 2016
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metroins
(2,550 posts)1. Big tent
Both parties have sects that can ignore some stuff and they like others.
For myself, I like expansion of social services for all, but don't like the racial arguments of the Democratic party.
Some people I know like only the religious part of the Republican party and their "support the troops" idealism but they hate the economics.
I don't know much about her but I don't try to judge on why they chose the party.
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)2. I judge. Remember. and whatever.
Skittles
(153,226 posts)3. how do you ignore racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-worker, anti-science, etc
disgusting
oh and FEEL FREE to explain to us the "racial arguments" of the Democratic Party
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)4. Because if she was a Dem she'd be slurred by progressives as a DINO. n/t
cali
(114,904 posts)5. She dreams of days of yore, I suppose, when people like Snowe, Jeffords,
Lincoln Chafee, and others formed a real wing of the party.
That, dear Susan, was long ago and far away.
She can't let go, I guess.