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In reply to the discussion: Perhaps pick a moderate republican and get Democrat votes? [View all]EYESORE 9001
(30,028 posts)82. Nobody is impugning your intellect
or lack thereof. Its the choice of Democrat as an adjective that catches my attention. You see, for a couple decades now, repuQs, MAGAts, conservatroids of all stripes, really, have been wielding the phrase Democrat party as an insult. If this is the first youve heard of this, then my job is done. If anyone persists saying it that way for the rest of your time here, you can expect pushback. People are funny about phrases that one would expect from RW scum, but not from a member of this board.
That, too, needed to be said.
Grammar error
Its a deliberate choice of phrase, and it got said in a grammatically correct manner. Its the ideology behind deliberate use with which I take issue.
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Ewww. Don't think we want someone that Time magazine said had the sharpest mind lol
Laura PourMeADrink
Jan 2023
#20
How do you define a "moderate" Republican? The crazies think McCarthy is "moderate"
onenote
Jan 2023
#5
Still leaves unanswered: would five repubs. support Fitzpatrick? Would every Democrat?
onenote
Jan 2023
#8
Apart from Fitzpatrick, what other "moderate" repubs are named in your source article?
onenote
Jan 2023
#44
The article is about Fitzpatrick. However there are other moderate repuibliocans.
The Jungle 1
Jan 2023
#49
That won't happen. The real problem is the republican party has embraced the insurrectionists.
JohnSJ
Jan 2023
#15
If Fitzpatrick is a republican fuck him. I would trust a rattlesnake before I trust one of those.
Autumn
Jan 2023
#21
They shit in their bed they can fucking lay in it. Democrats need to just sit back and
Autumn
Jan 2023
#24
I fear the repukes will give the radical right anything they want to get this done.
The Jungle 1
Jan 2023
#38
It would be more of an agreement on what policies wouldn't be implemented
Algernon Moncrieff
Jan 2023
#63
NO! We've had to clean up their mess before, but this is not a "have to" case.
Hermit-The-Prog
Jan 2023
#66