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nevergiveup

(4,762 posts)
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 09:46 AM Sep 2016

I can't totally get my head around this

nor can I think of a very good example but let us suppose for conversational purposes that we liberals/progressives had our own Donald Trump.....a bombastic, unscrupulous left leaning publicity whore idiot and he was our presidential candidate running against a Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush type Republican. What would we do?

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I can't totally get my head around this (Original Post) nevergiveup Sep 2016 OP
As a rule, the Democratic party does not run idiots for the presidency as the republican party shraby Sep 2016 #1
Not possible. Cracklin Charlie Sep 2016 #2

shraby

(21,946 posts)
1. As a rule, the Democratic party does not run idiots for the presidency as the republican party
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 09:56 AM
Sep 2016

does. In fact, I don't know as they ever have.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
2. Not possible.
Sun Sep 25, 2016, 10:55 AM
Sep 2016

Real democrats wouldn't be described using any of those words, at least not all at the same time.

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