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In reply to the discussion: Joe Walsh Leaps From the TEA Party to the Democratic Party [View all]angrychair
(11,764 posts)37. Tulsi Gabbard
Many, even I considered the possibility, that she was a changed person. Yet everything I thought she was is exactly who she is.
As I just said in another post, when people are more willing to criticize people like AOC or Frost then they are people like Walsh or Fetterman, then we have an identity crisis in the Party. I truly feel our Party being pulled center-right despite everything related to public opinion saying we should be doing the opposite. We need to be more liberal, not more conservative. We need to be a true alternative, not just Republican-lite
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Lol, with Joe, and previously David Jolly joining, I'm tearing up my Bingo Card !!!
OnDoutside
Jun 2025
#5
The thing is, Joe Walsh may be able to reach those who would never listen to most Dems.
summer_in_TX
Jun 2025
#64
You keep bringing up Gabbard, but I don't see her as a "perfect example" -- if anything she's the converse of Walsh
0rganism
Jun 2025
#47
"Started life"? You mean before she was a candidate for office? When she was 20?
0rganism
Jun 2025
#49
Looks like she switched in or before 2002 to run for the state legislature, before her military service began in 2003
0rganism
Jun 2025
#54
Props to him for speaking out, but it's not necessary for Republicans horrified by Trump
tanyev
Jun 2025
#6
It appears as though he had the political equivalent of a religious come to Jesus experience. n/t
elocs
Jun 2025
#8
Purist loyalty tests make parties small. It's happening to the maga party. . . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2025
#15
He's a conservative, not a Nazi. And it seems you think nobody can ever learn important lessons
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2025
#19
How on earth do you expect to persuade voters to vote Democratic w that attitude? When you won't accept any switch. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2025
#28
While Joe Walsh has used the phrase "You lie," it has mostly been in reference to Trump, and . . .
markpkessinger
Jun 2025
#22
I appreciate the fact that he owns, acknowledges, & admits to the errors of his previous behavior.
CaptainTruth
Jun 2025
#34
I have no interest in being an economically center-right, socially liberal party
biocube
Jun 2025
#39