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Progressives Unite! Against Democrats?
realclearpolitics.com ^ | August 27, 2007 | Michael van der Galien

Posted on 08/27/2007 2:58:52 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 08/27/2007 2:59:01 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

We’re trying to do the same thing to our “RINOS”- I just hope we are more effective at outing our compromisers, than they are of ejecting their “reasonable”-(relatively) members!!


2 posted on 08/27/2007 3:03:42 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Republicans if the don't beware ARE the new WHIGS! (all empty hairpieces..) :).)
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Judging only by a comparison of Free Republic threads and the many i've seen when lurking at the DUmp, we're not nearly as divided as they are towards each other. They have pages of threads that are repetitions of accusations of "heresy!"
3 posted on 08/27/2007 3:07:47 PM PDT by mrsmel (Free Ramos and Compean! Duncan Hunter for President!)
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I will confess I have visited Democratic Underground just to see what people were talking about here. I clicked on a topic that was parallel to one on over here to see what they were saying. What I found was just about every single poster was acting belligerent to each other, and that four factions were in the house: the almost sane, the crazy, the crazier, and the craziest.

I’m glad we are more civil on issues here and don’t have any crazy posters.


4 posted on 08/27/2007 3:18:18 PM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
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To: neverdem
Democrat philosophy: Diversify or we will hunt down and kill every one of you who doesn't agree with us...
5 posted on 08/27/2007 3:19:29 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: neverdem
Beware Progressives
6 posted on 08/27/2007 3:26:24 PM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have .chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: neverdem

I rarely give sincere advice to the other side—but I’ll make an exception in this case:

The problem (for Dhimmiecrats) with the term “Bush Dog” is that it will become obsolete, once Bush leaves office (if not sooner.) A more lasting term, which also is symmetric with established usage, would be “DINO” (Democrat-In-Name-Only,) or perhaps even “LINO” (Leftist-In-Name-Only.)

“DINO” has the added attraction (again, for Dhimmiecrats) of implying extinction of the species (which is what they’d like to achieve, after all.)

The Dhimmiecrats would be better off not trying to fight the last election over again—which is what using the term “Bush” does.


7 posted on 08/27/2007 3:34:18 PM PDT by sourcery (fRed Dawn: Wednesday, 5 November 2008!)
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>>...and therefore enemies of the people.<<

Chilling. That’s what every totalitarian setup uses, from 1984 New speak to flat out Communism.

8 posted on 08/27/2007 3:35:22 PM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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not "baaaad" http://action.aclu.org/site/DocServer/BAAAD_ad.pdf?docID=1541&JServSessionIdr005=r2iqeg7gt1.app26a

9 posted on 08/27/2007 3:43:19 PM PDT by crazyshrink
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To: crazyshrink

quick link

http://action.aclu.org/site/DocServer/BAAAD_ad.pdf?docID=1541&JServSessionIdr005=r2iqeg7gt1.app26a


10 posted on 08/27/2007 3:44:01 PM PDT by crazyshrink
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Democrat philosophy: Diversify or we will hunt down and kill every one of you who doesn't agree with us...

Another Democrat philosophy might be: All extremists should be taken out and shot.
11 posted on 08/27/2007 3:45:44 PM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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To: crazyshrink

http://sacramentofordemocracy.org/?q=node/view/9076

maybe this quicklink will work


12 posted on 08/27/2007 3:47:29 PM PDT by crazyshrink
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To: mrsmel

“Judging only by a comparison of Free Republic threads and the many i’ve seen when lurking at the DUmp, we’re not nearly as divided as they are towards each other. They have pages of threads that are repetitions of accusations of “heresy!””

More proof that the Paulistinians are really democrats.


13 posted on 08/27/2007 3:55:18 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
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To: Santa Fe_Conservative

You’re right, a little of the DUmp goes a long way. It’s a bastion of lunacy and degradation. I never really gave any thought to it when people here would joke, after lurking there, about needing a shower, but whether or not they were joking, they were absolutely right. Your brain needs cleansing after being there, to remove the filth, treason, the utter depression that the posts there engender. Those people are torn between rage and suicide-it’s no surprise that so many are on meds. It’s like having read something by the Marquis De Sade-you thought that you just wanted to learn what all the fuss is about, but it’s so disturbing that you wish you’d never looked.


14 posted on 08/27/2007 3:56:00 PM PDT by mrsmel (Free Ramos and Compean! Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: crazyshrink

No, but you are:)


15 posted on 08/27/2007 3:59:13 PM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: mrsmel
we're not nearly as divided as they are towards each other

You should have seen the way they vilified Cindy Sheehan on Kos. She was threatening to run as an independant (against Pelosi) and they crucified her because she wasn't going to have a (D) after her name. Talk about eating your own - she's THE anti-war poster child.

16 posted on 08/27/2007 3:59:40 PM PDT by BearCub
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Then they're totally schizo, because the DUmmies are crucifying the many naive newbies there who signed up at a place named "Democratic Underground", to boost Shrillary. They're being crucified for not being "true believer" progressives. The newbies are taken aback, thinking that a place called "Democratic underground", would support a Rat. DUH! LOL! I guess though, that in their twisted commie view, she's a DINO.
17 posted on 08/27/2007 4:04:10 PM PDT by mrsmel (Free Ramos and Compean! Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: Santa Fe_Conservative

We have a few odd ducks of our own. Agreed that we all need to avoid name calling and rude behavior...that’s what the clowns at DU specialize in.


18 posted on 08/27/2007 4:04:58 PM PDT by darth
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To: mrsmel

Mad as Captain Ahab they be, chasing Moby Bush.

“All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby-Dick. He piled on the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down”


19 posted on 08/27/2007 4:05:08 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Names Ash Housewares

LOL! Melville described “Bush Derangement Syndrome” before his time!


20 posted on 08/27/2007 4:09:25 PM PDT by mrsmel (Free Ramos and Compean! Duncan Hunter for President!)
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