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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)He was constrained by a number of influencers--his background, the environment in which he was raised, his USN experience, his temperament (he had the small command attitude of many submariners; a tendency to micromanage which was on the opposite spectrum of his successor, who didn't know what day it was, half the time), and of course, the "biggie" -- he didn't get a 2nd term.
The GOP will use ANYONE "trashing" a Democrat as "proof" of you-name-it...disarray, failed ideas, whatever. It's a technique they use, to take criticisms or simple observations, which may or may not be regarded as fair or accurate by all liberals, and equate that criticism to some kind of institutional disloyalty. When you see this kind of thing, watch out--you're dealing with someone who doesn't like honest debate.