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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 04:55 PM Original message |
Is the Democratic Party too far left? Even now? |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 04:58 PM Original message |
The Only Two Issues Are |
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metisnation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
87. how about anti-WTO |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. The Only Two Issues Are |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. LOL -- this must be a joke, right? |
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Screaming Lord Byron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
3. Is the Democratic party left wing in any way? |
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zanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
4. This questions always pisses me off. |
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LastKnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
5. Zell miller... |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. The Dem is more liberal SOCIALLY than your average American |
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Nederland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:47 PM Response to Reply #6 |
51. I doubt that |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:13 PM Response to Reply #51 |
63. of course tax cuts aren't "right wing" |
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Cascadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
7. Not from where I am standing. |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. Look at the election map... |
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dolstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. The Democrats are too conservative for the coasts? |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. 27% of voters nationwide preferred Nader over all other candidates. |
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SahaleArm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
36. You mean 2.7%? |
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Ardee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
83. Perhaps, perhaps not.... |
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DuctapeFatwa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
9. Left of Rutherford B. Hayes, maybe |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. IS TOO a difference between them and the Republicans. |
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dolstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
10. Newsflash: The Democratic Party is as far to the left as it has ever been |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. ? |
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dolstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:31 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Excuse me, but the departure of social conservatives from the party |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:11 PM Response to Reply #22 |
38. is it, now? |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:40 PM Response to Reply #38 |
69. Hello? Earth to dolstein... |
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burr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. Does this make our party tuned in with 64% of Americans who are dovish? |
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dolstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:47 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. You really think those 64% are going to vote for Dean? |
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burr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:00 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. nope... |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:57 PM Response to Reply #18 |
33. I dunno about more dovish nowadays |
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jiacinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
11. He's not coming out my camp |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. he certainly claims to |
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Flying_Pig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
12. No. Zell Miller's opinion, is that the entire U.S. should behave and |
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Scott Lee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
41. Well Said |
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grannylib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
13. Not far enough left for me... |
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Kamika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
15. Zell was a dinosaur |
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dolstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Zell Miller may be many things -- but he's not a bigot |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:03 PM Response to Reply #15 |
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snippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:08 PM Response to Reply #59 |
61. One of the very few Dixiecrats who did not cross the aisle. |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
21. YES! |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:36 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. LOL! If Carol Moseley-Braun said that I'd vote for her in a heartbeat! |
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Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
24. The Democratic party lost the last of its liberals in the 80s... |
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info being (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
25. What do you guys even mean by Left? |
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rbnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
26. Ahh Ahhh Ahhhhhh! |
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realFedUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
28. Considering the "center" has moved far right lately... |
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spindoctor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:19 PM Response to Reply #28 |
40. The center moves? |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:31 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. politics is not cosmology. n/t |
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zanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:35 PM Response to Reply #28 |
49. realFedUp--Wish I'd said that. |
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zanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:36 PM Response to Reply #28 |
50. realFedUp--Wish I'd said that. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
30. good gawd, the words "left" and "democratic party" don't belong... |
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Scott Lee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
31. You gotta be shitting me |
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damnraddem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
32. Thank God, it's still too far left to be ... |
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zonmoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
34. NO |
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stevebreeze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
37. Lets see..... |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
39. Zell Miller Is Not A Moderate Dem.... |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:30 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. I said centrists, not moderates. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:32 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Even With That Caveat |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:56 PM Response to Reply #47 |
55. then let's define a common language. |
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pmbryant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:35 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Please provide a definition |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:53 PM Response to Reply #48 |
53. as I said the other day |
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pmbryant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:02 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. If you go by voting scores... |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:17 PM Response to Reply #57 |
64. I don't go by voting scores alone. |
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pmbryant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:25 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. Jeffords and Miller |
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lastliberalintexas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
42. If it is, |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
43. Zell is a DINO and a reich-wing sympathizer |
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pmbryant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
44. Please please please do not associate Zell Miller with the word 'Democrat' |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 06:54 PM Response to Reply #52 |
54. do tell. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:00 PM Response to Reply #54 |
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DoubleYellowDog (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:23 PM Response to Reply #62 |
65. My wife and I make 95k |
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pmbryant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:26 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. Single people can have unhealthy parents too |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:30 PM Response to Reply #65 |
68. save me the sob story. |
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DoubleYellowDog (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:02 PM Response to Reply #68 |
75. Give it up? |
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snippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:06 PM Response to Reply #75 |
78. Why have you chosen to pay so much in property tax? |
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snippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:45 PM Response to Reply #65 |
70. You need a lawyer to sue your accountant. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:05 PM Response to Reply #70 |
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snippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:12 PM Response to Reply #76 |
82. "Too many non-working lazy people" Like unhealthy parents I suppose. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 10:08 PM Response to Reply #76 |
86. Hmmmm |
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Selwynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
58. How exactly is it "left" in any meaningful way? |
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duvinnie (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:56 PM Response to Reply #58 |
72. not dead |
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The Commie (94 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:59 PM Response to Reply #58 |
73. Sad, but true. |
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Laszlo_Hollyfeld (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
60. For my tastes, its too far right |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
71. We aren't left enough for me |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:08 PM Response to Reply #71 |
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thebigidea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:12 PM Response to Reply #79 |
81. that sort of rhetoric should make you a real hit here |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 10:09 PM Response to Reply #79 |
88. so much anger must be a tough burden to carry |
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dolstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
74. Well, 40 years ago, Lieberman would be considered a liberal Democrat |
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DealsGapRider (650 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
77. I could use a little more liberalism from the Democratic Party... |
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DoubleYellowDog (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:09 PM Response to Reply #77 |
80. That's fair enough |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:30 PM Response to Reply #80 |
84. Huh? |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-04-03 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
85. I'd really like a straight answer to #2. |
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