ATTENTION! The Democratic Party is going down a Road of No Return......

[FrenchieCat]

and it is a road that we will not be able to crawl back from.

What is happening to many of us is very dangerous, and when progressives start regressing it is nothing good.

We need to stop all of this nonsense before it is too late.

The Democratic Party is about to lose enough voters to where the party will be rendered meaningless and irrelevant for decades to come.

Think about it.......and understand that we are part of the conversation, and each and everyone of us that is willing to go down really low, we become a piece of taking steps backwards.

What I am saying is that this is not the General Election....and the opponent is not from a different party. It is one thing to alienate those who wouldn't normally vote for our party, but that is not what is happening; We are alienating ourselves from each other.

This is simply a warning from where I sit...because it appears that things have taken a turn for the worse.

Peace to you all, and I hope those wanting to win the primaries understand what they are willing to risk. Whether it is Supreme Court Justice or Health Care, in a minute we will have nothing at all.

Mark my words.

[MADem]

1. No it isn't. The vitriolic idiots here on DU aren't the Democratic Party.

There's a PRIMARY going on. The winner will be hardened in victory.

The whining here is just activist-partisan bullshit.

[bigbrother05]

2. But, this is all the media is talking about

it's not just isolated here at DU

[MADem]

4. Talk to 'real people.' They're tuning this shit out. The big news?

Pictures of Spitzer's HONEYPOT have just hit the wires...this will be the story of the day:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/nyregion/12cnd-kristen.html?em&ex=1205553600&en=8b376b18dced9267&ei=5087%0A




She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York.

Kristen, the prostitute described in a federal affidavit as having had a rendezvous with Mr. Spitzer on Feb. 13 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor apartment in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. On Monday, she made a brief appearance in federal court, where a lawyer was appointed to represent her. She is expected to be a witness in the case against four people charged with operating a prostitution ring called the Emperor’s Club V.I.P.

In a series of telephone interviews on Tuesday night, she said she had slept very little over the past week, with all the stress of the case.

“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” the woman said as she told the tiniest tidbits of her story.

[comtec]

21. At least he has good taste :)

In the looks department LOL.
I honestly don't give a rats ass, aside from teh fact that it was a GOPer. IMHO prostitution should be legal, taxed up the ASS, and contained in brothels, with escorts monitored for their safety.

Brothels themselves can have whatever kinks the guy or gals want, every room monitored, and a mini clinic on location with regular testing for jon/janes and workers.

Safe, fun, and profitable for all.

[greyghost]

24. You've just described my perfect world.

[greyghost]

25. She's hot!

[FrenchieCat]

3. We proceed on then......

I will be watching and listening to your contribution to the madness.

[Beacool]

15. No it isn't, talk to people on the street.

Too many of Hillary supporters will not vote for Obama, as stated in various recent polls.

[MADem]

53. Oh, that crap cuts both ways. It always does ahead of a nomination.

Most people will be sunning on the beach or at the park and not worrying about this shit come July, unless they are obsessed.


And if they're obsessed, they're ALWAYS obsessed....about something.

[greyghost]

23. AMEN. This place is not a reflection of the country as a whole.

[MonkeyFunk]

5. This coming from somebody who has for months

done everything possible to destroy one of our candidates.

Your concern is touching.

[Metric System]

6. Bingo!

[FrenchieCat]

8. Provide the evidence.......

and show me where I have attacked Clinton on her race or gender.

I have brought up what is fair in politics, and have alienated only those who couldn't answer.

But go ahead and continue to build on my reputation for me........Too many know better.

[Johnny__Motown]

10. I'm with Frenchie on this one.. she is very fair about what she posts here.

I am bias since we are both Obama supporters but I must still take her side. Provide some evidence where she was unfair. I don't think you can.


You know.. evidence... like this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZsYWiywdCA&feature=related

[Bluebear]

12. 'she is very fair about what she posts here.' - OMG

:spray:

[FrenchieCat]

40. This is not about me.....which is why posters like you

don't want to get it. You'd rather attack without substantial basis......just because, I'm one of those posters you despise because I make sense.

But keep up the hate.....since that is all you know.

[Bluebear]

50. I don't hate you, I just think you are a hypocrite. You are the last person to call for unity.

[cboy4]

33. You owe me a new screen

:spray:

bwahahaha

hhahahahahahahahahahah i can't breathe

[MonkeyFunk]

13. It doesn't have to be about race or gender

you've dragged every smear you can find about her here, no matter how low. No lie was beneath you. No cheap attack too low for you.

I've told you for months it was stupid and unproductive, but you and many others insisted on doing it. It also engendered a backlash against your candidate.

It's a little late now to ask people to play nice.

[FrenchieCat]

16. I not asking for anything....if you were to reread my post.

[greyghost]

28. I've read it, once was enough, thank you.

[greyghost]

27. Amen to that.

[FrenchieCat]

42. Pile ons are cheap and petty and have to do with herd mentality....

but one liners not related to anything in the OP are useless....which, unfortunately, is what I am getting used to when it comes to some Hillary supporters.

[greyghost]

49. Actually, I'm an Edwards supporter who has posted the same

warnings as Monkey Funk. Perhaps now you understand the concept of BACK LASH.

[stolidus]

30. Here Here!

Thank you for calling out the hypocrisy.

There is nothing worse than a hypocrite. Nothing.

[Bluebear]

11. You said it.

And not one of our candidates, it was Edwards before that, the closest thing to a progressive we had.

[greyghost]

26. LOL

[TheDeathadder]

29. exactly

when I saw who started this, I was like "are you joking?"

[indimuse]

34. ding ding ding!

ha!

[usrbs]

37. Thanks for saying it first

[Beacool]

46. I agree, there has been nothing but vitriol coming from her.

She has bashed Hillary constantly, so now she's worried about the divisiveness in the party?

[Bake]

47. Tell it, Monkey, tell it!!

I had Frenchie on Ignore for weeks for her divisive bullshit -- among the very worst of the O-bots.

Apparently now that Pastorgate has hit the news, the O-bots are more concerned with unity.

I think they took that "wrong road" long ago. I hope the Kool-Aid was good.

Bake

[grantcart]

7. Clinton has reached the point where she believes she has to destroy the village in order to save it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5033244

[fairyforest]

51. The race should be argued on issues

Not trivialities. I agree.

[Johnny__Motown]

9. I share your concern, Unfortunately until we have a legitimate nominee we can't unite

Leave it to the Dems to have such a huge advantage as a W legacy and to turn on each other instead.

One way or the other an era within the party will end. Hopefully the Clinton era.

[AtomicKitten]

14. If she had 1 oz of class she'd withdraw immediately.

The damage may already be irreparable. It is mathematically next to impossible for her to win, and she seems fine with trying to do it ugly. Gawd what a disappointment after these long-ass seven years.

[Eurobabe]

17. I despise HRC for all the crap she's pulled in last 2 mos.

At this point I am not sure I will vote for her should she get the nomination.

[Raine]

19. I don't think I can

I've had my doubts for awhile but this latest garbage her campaign has pulled has so turned me off. I don't believe I can hold my nose enough to vote for her. x(

[AtomicKitten]

48. I passed that threshold at So. Carolina.

:(

[RichardRay]

18. What Frenchie said

in spades.

Good God, people, we're going to shoot ourselves, all of our friends and the rest of the world squarely in both feet if we can't find a way to bring this to a close. If it comes to it, and it's getting close, I guess I'll hope the Barack sees his way clear to drop out. I would be bitter about it for the rest of my life and would have to hold my nose pretty hard while I voted for HRC, but I'd do it, and he would, too.

After winning the election I'd devote the next four years to making damn certain HRC was a one term president, but she's still better than McCain.

[FrenchieCat]

20. I don't believe that Hillary will be the Nominee, although she's

killing us trying to make us think so.

[greyghost]

31. Don't bet against her.

[elleng]

22. I'm afraid you are right, Frenchie.

Progressives or liberals or lefties or whatever y'all call yourselves are doing a 'better' job of eating 'our' young than Dems usually do, as I see it, and consequently, the Dem party may neither survive nor recover.

When my daughters get really angry at me and use foul language, I try NOT to reciprocate in kind. I figure that if we're going to live in the same family, its better that we are able later to forgive and forget, and if we've shed blood, thats not be so easy.

Peace all, and Thanks, Frenchie.

[stolidus]

32. Hypocrite. :-/

[FrenchieCat]

39. You can get into the personal insults and call me a name

but that doesn't change a thing.

[Asia Expat]

35. You finally woke up. nt

[XemaSab]

36. I'm with you

I'm seeing Hillary trying to lighten the load by jettisoning valuable members of the party, and it's just not cool at all. :(

[K Gardner]

38. I agree, Frenchie. This is no time to get lost in the furor of the moment and refuse to see the big

picture of the future we are mapping out.

[RememberWellstone]

41. Nonsense

The sky is not falling FYI, don't be so negative. What does'nt kill us will make us stronger. It is our time as a party to do what we all have wanted to do. This is all good.

[NastyRiffraff]

43. So, what ARE you saying, FrenchieCat?

I see a lot of "we need to stop" and how dangerous it all is. So what's your solution? Everybody bow down low to Obama? Give up? What?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

44. Of course you're right. Once Obama becomes the nominee, he will need all the support he can to fend

off the RW attacks that are sure to come. Hillary is not doing the Democratic Party any favors beating him up like she is.

[IndianaJones]

45. lol. nt.

[Barack_America]

52. We'll survive.

And our party (and nation) will be better for it. This is an important conversation and time in our country.

It's important that we keep the faith.

We will get through this.