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Emboldened Democrats court party's left wing
Boston Globe ^ | March 17, 2006 | Nina J. Easton

Posted on 03/17/2006 4:47:00 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

WASHINGTON -- Former senator John Edwards got high marks from labor for a new effort to unionize hotel workers, and Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold's demand this week that President Bush be censured was music to the ears of activists on the left.

Meanwhile, Mark Warner, former Virginia governor, recently hired one of the leftist blogosphere's biggest names to run his Internet outreach campaign, and Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana began a blog on the liberal Huffington Post, peddling his foreign policy views.

The next round of prospective Democratic presidential candidates, even those with centrist credentials, is actively courting the Democratic Party's left wing -- which speaks loudly through its blogs, enjoys rising fund-raising clout built on Howard Dean's 2004 campaign, and is imbued with a confidence that it can build on Republican disarray. The Democrats are rushing to fill a void left in the hearts and minds of many liberal activists by New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to move to the center, particularly on the Iraq war.

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TOPICS: Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; blogs; democrats; easton; liberals; markwarner; warner2008; weblogs
Easton was on Fox News earlier and this was discussed. Fred Barnes made a sweet comment about "liberals can't win national elections."
1 posted on 03/17/2006 4:47:02 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

"Stupid White Liberals"


2 posted on 03/17/2006 4:49:36 PM PST by Shermy
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I want liberals give until it hurts. Then give some more. And keep pushing farther and farther left.

Gore / Dean 2008 !!

3 posted on 03/17/2006 4:56:26 PM PST by llevrok (Drink your beer damnit !! There are people in Africa sober.)
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To: llevrok
Dean/Keebler Elf 2008

(no slight against the keebler elves, I just forget the guy's name).

4 posted on 03/17/2006 5:09:21 PM PST by M203M4
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

This is the natural inclination of democrats, and it always brings them defeat.


5 posted on 03/17/2006 5:40:23 PM PST by billhilly (The Democrat symbol is no longer the donkey, it's a strait Jacket.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Former senator John Edwards got high marks from labor for a new effort to unionize hotel workers,

This jerk doesn't learn. USW, UAW, have destroyed, or are in the process of destroying those industries. The airline industry is hurting... Now he's going after service industires? (rolling eyes)

6 posted on 03/17/2006 6:00:29 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: M203M4
Keebler Elf

Are you thinking of Tommy Daschle?

7 posted on 03/17/2006 6:39:52 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
The Democrats are rushing to fill a void left in the hearts and minds of many liberal activists by New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to move to the center, particularly on the Iraq war.

This gives me much comfort as we near the Nov elections.

8 posted on 03/17/2006 7:50:39 PM PST by Once-Ler (The rat 06 election platform will be a promise to impeach the President if they win.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

India has its Communist problem and so do we.


9 posted on 03/18/2006 4:46:25 AM PST by RoadTest ("- - a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people." - Richard Henry Lee, 1786)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
This is excellent news.
10 posted on 03/18/2006 4:48:11 AM PST by Jim Noble (And you know what I'm talkin' 'bout!)
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To: Cobra64
Now he's going after service industires?

Just wait until they nationalize all the hospitals.

1199 will be the biggest dog!

If it wasn't horrific, it would actually be funny!

11 posted on 03/18/2006 4:49:57 AM PST by Jim Noble (And you know what I'm talkin' 'bout!)
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To: Jim Noble
Just wait until they nationalize all the hospitals.

Hey, that wouldn't be so bad. Because then we'll have a choice of whether to get treatment here or in Canada. /sarcasm

12 posted on 03/18/2006 11:17:48 AM PST by Cobra64
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Democrat partys BIGGEST secret->> socialism should be illegal but isn't..

And no living republican knows that..

13 posted on 03/18/2006 11:45:04 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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