Posted on 01/27/2006 7:48:33 PM PST by Pikamax
Basically, this is sort of the flip side of what happened with Miers.
The base uprising and demanding a certain result.
In our case, we got Alito.
In the Dems' case, they are bordering on giving the GOP 60 seats by adhering to their kooks despite the GOP's attempts to slam the door in its own face throughout the last year.
Since they got such a kick out of our fight a few months ago, I'm going to just sit back and observe with some enjoyment their predicament. It can't end well, no matter the result. Long term it's going to hurt them. In the shor term? Probably hurt them too provided the GOP remains firm.
Popcorn, please.
Netroots... or nutroosts?
"They are enraged with the fact that not everyone agrees with them.
I really find it quite humorous---it is like watching a bunch of adolescent girls off in a corner pouting.
Most of them were going to leave the country last year after the election. It would be nice if they had."
Now they have a cheaper option - a one-way ticket to Oregon.
Blogs like Kos and MoreOn.org?
They're always ready to toss the drowning man of the Dimocratic Party an anvil!
Let's you and him go out and fight!
When the Democrats run on 'protecting Social Security', they win. Face it. The majority of the American people flatly do not want a repeal of the New Deal and never will. That is why it is the GOP that was hurt when Newt shut down the federal government.
The problem the left has in this article is the same that the right has. The online environment is a place where like minded people can talk only to other like minded people and thereby get a completely warped idea of what 'the people' want. Fanaticism and zealotry are nurtured and the extremes sharpened. If your filter on the world is talk radio or DU or FR for that matter where you encounter only people who agree completely with you, you can flatter yourself that you are 'the people'.
DU and the Daily Kos are providing a medium for the re-McGovernization of the Democratic Party.
If they had all gone to Canada like they threatened to, maybe Stephen Harper wouldn't have won. :-)
I wonder how those liberals who did move up North are feeling now? They have GOT to be pissed!
They could still blog from Canada. Nope, just elected Harper. Well, then, England. Nope. Blair still in power. How 'bout Germany. Ohh no. Merkel.
Their choices have narrowed to France, Iran, China or Venezuela. Oh, and I hear Cuba and North Korea are nice in the spring.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I like it.
Nam Vet
More like: "We have to destroy the village to save the village", voletti.
Jack.
Same problem for the Republicans. I've heard there are far-right web sites, including one called "Free Republic" filled with kooky . . .
Oh, wait a sec ;-)
Yeah, they raised money on the web for Dean. Lot of good it did him though, and as a result, Dean because the head of the DNC!
Now the media wants to destroy this monster, but they can't, they've lost their power. First they lost the right, then they lost the middle, and now they are losing the left. LOL!
Hee hee bump.
Except that Oregon passed a referendum banning gay marriage.
And Canada went conservative.
Which leaves Ithaca, Boulder and Berkeley.
So many liberals, so few utopias.
It goes beyond power.
It used to be that being a liberal columnist was a plum position commanding higher pay.
But now liberal opinions are everywhere on the internet - and supply and demand being what it is, it has devalued the role of providing liberal opinion.
Which means the only avenue left for the MSM to make money is to actually report and gather news, because few care what they think any longer, let alone are willing to pay for it (Times Select, anyone?).
The senate race could become a national race on whether we want activist judges or judges who follow the Constitution strictly especially if one more Supreme Court judge.
It would be the best thing that could ever happen to the Republicans when you take into account all the states who have felt the need to ban gay marriage by vote and then look at the dems up for election and where they come from.
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