Posted on 01/30/2006 5:14:01 PM PST by LdSentinal
I'll keep this short and bitter. Every god damned blue state senator who failed to sign on to the Alito filibuster MUST be fought in the primaries and replaced. The Democratic party has failed the rank and file members.
It is time to take back the Democratic party from the right wing, loser hacks who have been fumblingly, failingly controlling it and the candidates put forward. I can't believe how many people tell me that they believe the DLC and right wing democrats are really Republican operators.
IN the OpEdNews.com/Zogby people's poll I just ran in Pennsylvania, about 29% of the respondents were liberals or progressives. With 51 percent of the respondents being democrats, that means that 58% of the democrats are liberal or Progressive. We ARE the majority.
If a stab-us-in-the-back senator in a blue state failed to suppor the filibuster we MUST find strong, tough candidates to run against and BEAT them. We must raise money for candidates, even if they are not running in our states.
We, the Progressives and liberals must define the issues. We must tell our elected officials what to do. This was the last straw. We need to draw up a list of these traitors to democracy and take them out of the political arena. I bet they'll end up on some corporation's payroll.
We need leaders who will go to congress and not be cowed by the seniority system. They represent constitituents who are just as important as the senior members. So F**K the seniority system. F**k Barack Obama for selling out the people who put their trust in him.
Here's the list of the "Democratic" senators who betrayed us.
Akaka (HI), Baucus (MT), Bingaman (NM), Byrd (WV), Cantwell (WA), Carper (DE), Dorgan (ND), Inouye (HI), Johnson (SD), Kohl (WI), Landrieu (LA), Lieberman (CT), Lincoln (AR), Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Pryor (AR), Rockefeller (WV), Salazar (CO)
Ad Bob Fertik, of Democrats.com, said, "There was no reason for this betrayal. We only needed 40 of the 45 Democrats to sustain a filibuster."
Some of them hail from solid Red states. We can't blame them. But the ones from blue states and purple states should be treated like wanted criminals and removed from their positions of trust and power. It's not having people who call themselves democrats when they fail us when it matters most. These lowly cowards should have treated this fight like a war and supported the filibuster even if it meant taking an election bullet. I believe the action would have gained them votes. It would have forced Bush to submit a candidate who would actually be good for the US, unlike the unworthy liar he's appointed.
I would say that we are now in a state of war, but the right wing has been at war with the american people for a long time. Today, we learned of the traitors in our midst. We know what to do with traitors. And we need to act fast.
To not capitalize the name of our great nation, is a slap at her honor. I'm not surprised at this fool's failing.
I'm all in favor of his plan.
We freepers should all send contributions to help them select even more lefty candidates in their primaries - I'm sure any republican running against them would appreciate it!!
"Don't you just love the thought of Diane Finestein having to debate Cindy al-Sheehadi in a primary battle?"
When do the tickets go on sale?
This nicely illustrates how the blogosphere is toxic to the left. The marxists will always try to take over from the well meaning Dems, and the internet gives leverage to their venom.
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But only 14.8% of the nation is liberal. Can't rule with numbers like that... unless you are a dictator.
I am still holding out hope that the ultralib moonbats decide to break ranks and support green party candidates from now on
It is fun to watch the leftists lash out and flail against EVERYTHING on their side, including Moveon.org, Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton and blue state voters!
What he was writing was: 51% of those polled were Democrats. 29% of those polled were liberal/progressive Democrats. That leaves 22% of the Democrats as moderate/conservative. That's how he came up with the 58% figure: 29% of the total population makes 58% of the Democrats when 51% of the total population are Democrats (in round numbers, of course).
Still, I agree that his figures are high for liberal/progressives and that's where I believe he's fudging the numbers. I've heard elsewhere that 15-20% is a good range for percentages of liberal/socialists. That's somewhat under half of all Democrats.
Where' was the poll taken? How was the poll constructed? How were the questions developed? Who managed the results? This is all a big moonbat exercise and only serves to show how loony they are.
I think we should support the author's call.
Some nice, high profile senatorial primary battles between the fairly-far left and the loony left might just be what it takes to turn some of those blue states red, and at very least, it would waste demonRAT money, and give us some more sound-bites to use against them.
Why is it that all the Dims that I know are socialists? I think it is because they are the activists, thus making themselves heard.
Duly noted. I'll avoid such verbosity in my future trolling activity.
I didn't know that Robin Williams wrote political commentary.
On the national level, yes. I know Dims locally (a rural town in Illinois) who aren't that liberal or vocal. On the other hand, those connected with our community college are 'out there'. One of 'those' we used to church with (before changing affiliation) gave money to the Dean campaign. Then, her husband wanted my wife and I to post a campaign sign for him (the husband) on our lawn when he ran for city office. We politely turned him down (as we did all other similar inquiries). He hasn't talked to us since.
Get the picture?
We've had that happen to us: libs who end relationship as soon as they find out we are conservative. How tolerant is that? I find it sad.
A year ago this friend gave a Civil War presentation at the church's men's breakfast. Afterward, the 'lib' began critiquing his presentation. I broke in when I heard him make a statement I thought inaccurate.
The 'lib' then turned on me (he hadn't said a word to me all morning because of the 'sign' thing) insisting I didn't know what I was talking about. I left it at that because I didn't want to make a scene in front of others.
About 2 weeks later I received a forwarded email from my friend who had given the presentation. It originated from the 'lib' and stated I was apparently right after all. He emailed our friend asking him to forward the email to me.
Get the picture II? Sheeesh! What idiots!!
LOL, probably true!
Yeah, so? The Dims keep surrendering. What else is new?
Stupid liberals.
G-d is one word.
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