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In reply to the discussion: Rachel had it Right, now DU is getting it wrong. [View all]SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)is the big, huge, universe of difference which your rant obviously does not grasp.
That is the difference between the two as I see it.
No progressive here voted for those men who attempted to redefine rape. Plenty of conservative did exactly that. They built a bubble of reality during the past two years where they believed that all they needed to do was tack further to the extreme right in their views and they would have won the White House.
Romney wasn't the only candidate from which they could have chosen... remember, Jon Huntsman was laughed out of the primary because he could not get elected--and guess who was holding sway during that time in that party? The likes of gingrich, santorum, perry, bachmann, cain with mitt being the least liked but the only one who wasn't so far off the map that he could get the INDEPENDENTS to vote for their party. Everyone else was so extreme in their positions that they turned off the moderates and independents. Huntsman was the only one moderate enough to be able to bring in the independents and truth be told, he was the scariest of the lot because given half a chance, that man might have won the election.
Mittiot was willing to lie and buy his way into the white house and the GOP was certainly more than happy to play along.
The way I see it, they all might as well be limpballs, fux noose and grinch because that's how they chose to tack.
No, Obama does not have to compromise. All he needs to do is give them enough rope--they'll take care of either hanging themselves or being hoisted upon their own petards.