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calimary's JournalAgreed! I was starting to wonder about that state. Gratified to see this.
Sorta restores my faith. There is NO WAY that ANY Democrat should be voting for scott brown - especially when they have an alternative like Elizabeth Warren!!! She understands AND embodies the very core of what it means to be a Democrat. And I would think that Massachusetts would want a confirmed and dedicated "D" in that job as opposed to a sometimes-kinda-sorta-maybe when it's merely politically expedient.
SO glad to see this! I'm actually relieved. He had better numbers for so long I was starting to get disillusioned about Massachusetts!
Then that's when we need all those "boots on the ground" - it's clear that when activists started
shining a light on this darkness, it did what sunlight usually does - added illumination and started disinfecting. These bastards can only succeed in the dark, when they're sure nobody's looking or paying attention.
Which is why we HAVE TO!!!! And why we CANNOT afford to be complacent!
If they think you don't care, they won't, either!!!
And one more:
Quoting what Mad-Eye Moody always told Harry Potter: "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!!"
Wish I could recommend this post!
Certainly recommending the whole thread - but THIS POST
"When Republican talking points are converted into facts, and the media asks loaded partisan questions, they are infecting the viewers with a built in partisan bias."
just says it ALL!!! I used to be in the news biz. I've watched the decline over the last couple of decades. It's been a DISGRACE!!! Nobody in it now wants to claim any responsibility for what they're disseminating. Most of the time, most of them are falling back on the same cop-out: "it's not my job to dig for the facts, or say somebody's being honest or not! I'm doing my job when I merely present what the (fill in the blank here) is/are saying. That's all I'm required to do, and THAT's my sole responsibility as a 'good,' 'unbiased' journalist."
Makes me sick to my stomach!!! Anybody not understand how America has become so freakin' dumbed down???? Covering the news is NOT about shedding light anymore.
AND she's from California. SAN FRANCISCO, California, to boot.
Blue state. Bad enough. California in particular and especially San Francisco both embody a lot of what they hate. The most broad-minded state in the union, at least I think so (biased, of course), and I think also the biggest of the melting pots. We have EVERYBODY in this state, and lots of the key demographics that are making the most noise, challenging the status quo the most, and poised to dominate or go fully mainstream in the future. The fading power of the previous Alpha category, White Male, is provoking desperation and bringing out the worst in them in the form of very negative and even antisocial reactive behavior. It's acting out. Which explains the rise of the rowdies and bullies and goons and the whole aggressive teabagger phenomenon. I'm being diplomatic in describing them as a "phenomenon." "Abberation" is more like it, IMHO. That's what happens when you start to feel outnumbered. And then add Old to the category and that makes things even worse! As it ages, it loses potency - WHICH HAPPENS TO EVER CARBON-BASED LIFE FORM ON THIS PLANET, okay????
Nancy Pelosi is on the cutting left edge of the country and represents the inevitable change that's already happening in this country, in demographics and power and general public mindset. The freepers and others of their ilk, teabaggers too, and religious whackos that have taken over the GOP know that this big tsunami is already on the way toward land and they can't do quite enough to stop it, and it's going to take over the world as they presumed to know it. They don't want it to happen, and they're NOT taking this well. And instead of trying to evolve, they're fighting it, kicking and screaming every micron of the way.
It's to be expected. Evolution is not without pain. Neither is growth. There will always be people who don't want to change. I mean, look at the Amish in this country. But they're a peaceable people. The freepers and teabaggers and so forth are anything but.
As far as Nancy Pelosi herself, what probably burns their burgers more than anything is that she's in such a safe district. Hell, even Cindy Sheehan couldn't beat her. So there's certainly no way any knuckle-dragger has any hope running against her. Nancy will never leave that seat until she chooses to walk away from it.
Welcome to DU! Good point!
Glad you're here. We need you! And you're quite correct - the simpler the message with this crowd, the better. After all, I believe it was kkkarl rove who once said "too much education isn't necessarily a good thing" - because the better-educated you are, the more likely you'll embrace the liberal view.
Now get to work. We have a reelection to secure.
Great summary, TrollBuster9090! REALLY good. Like the way you listed them, too.
I made myself a couple of copies of them. This may well provide me with the next response to one of those crackpot anti-Obama emails I get every so often. Always good to be well-supplied with rebuttals!
And yeah, your point at the end is EXCEPTIONALLY well-taken! CRITICAL to remember that you aren't just voting some candidate into the Oval Office. You are ALSO voting for all the advisors, donors, back-room friends and fellow schemers and others of like mind who DON'T have so much on the line with the public. So they can go stealth and exert all kinds of influence on judicial nominations, Cabinet officers, advisor postings, policy, etc. That's another big problem I have with wrongney. His foreign policy department is crawling with PNACers and their unfinished business left over from the truly DREADFUL dubya years.
And women in combat. I share your fury, longship!
Such small, scared, threatened people. Such very little people. Amazing the weight they can throw around.
Yes. WHY NO ERA????
And we only got an equal pay bill signed into law - with THIS presidency. How many years after this photo was that?
Welcome to DU!
This has been their way since they got nasty back in the '80s. Heady times for them with this whole seismic political shift when ronald reagan came onto the scene and brought a bunch of pre-Cambrian teabaggers with them - like newt gingrich and all his little friends in that 1980 freshman class in Congress. AWFUL. He swaggered around declaring himself a "back bench bomb-thrower" with an ego the size of the state of Alaska. And all his little friends were emboldened. And further more, because of reagan embracing and USING the passions of the religious extremists (those wackjobs FINALLY found their hero to bring them in out of the cold! Sigh!), they all assumed that victory meant THEY had God on THEIR side. When you stir a cocktail like that together, you get a pretty damn shitty drink, and an AWFUL hangover - that unfortunately lasts for decades.
Only problem with that: meg whitman.
Madame Ebay outspent Jerry Brown for CA governor by a factor of I think 12-to-1. The results were: congratulations Governor Brown!
So nobody with the big bucks learned anything from that lesson. I imagine since their behavioral pattern defaults on willful, even proud, ignorance, chronic denial, and a tendency to deflect blame onto the opponent and not accept responsibility for what they enable, they might default on all those things yet again. As in "we weren't _______ enough!" I bet a huge cross-section of them will be led by the "not CONservative enough" because they simply won't get that America is NOT as hysterically reactionary as they are. They WON'T get that. They WON'T take delivery on that. Anymore than any of them now will take delivery on the idea that you can't balance any kind of budget if you refuse to raise taxes while also refusing to cut what's popular while also refusing to put the Pentagon on a diet. Who wants to take delivery on the idea that what you believe in is not popular? Or is racist? Or is utterly stupid and not based on fact? WHILE at the same time you're being constantly media-massaged and propagandized that you're okay and that shit ideology of yours is just magic-underwear wonderful and freedomy-freedomy and free markety-free markety.
I'm guessing most of them are still thinking THIS time it'll work. And they're not ready to give up just yet. They'll go down fighting.
We are NOT dealing with a mass of people who are grown-up enough to concede, willingly, that they were wrong and their ideas and world view all SUCK. Most of them will go to their graves firmly convicted they were "right." Souls CAN be saved. And there's no reason not to try. But not every soul is salvageable.
DO NOT GET COMPLACENT!!!!!
We don't have this thing won yet.
It's looking good but this is mid-SEPTEMBER. We have to get through the first week of November. As they say... a lot can happen in just seven weeks or so. We DARE NOT take these polls too much to heart. When the enemy becomes desperate (as many suspect might be starting to happen now), God in Heaven only knows what they might try.
And we CANNOT be asleep at the switch. All hands on deck. Nobody takes any days off for the foreseeable future! We're at DefCon 5. And Red Alert. Ironic, but also literal.
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