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sibelian

(7,804 posts) Tue Jun 18, 2013, 10:23 AM Jun 2013

I don't see how it benefits the Right to encourage left wing oppostion to their programme. [View all]

They started all this crap. It is not clear to me why they would expose a programme they put a great deal of effort into simply to unseat a politician. Politicians come and go, legislature does not.

I do not regard the "it's an anti-Obama plot" as at all credible.

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I don't see how it benefits the Right to encourage left wing oppostion to their programme. [View all] sibelian Jun 2013 OP

Of course it doesn't. OnyxCollie Jun 2013 #1

+100 truebluegreen Jun 2013 #2

You and the OP are whacking at straw men. But it makes you feel good, I'm sure. KittyWampus Jun 2013 #4

I'm afraid not. sibelian Jun 2013 #6

very, very few DU'ers are pushing that line, so you raise a straw man. The issue is whether solving KittyWampus Jun 2013 #3

It is those "few" to whom the OP was addressed. sibelian Jun 2013 #5

and that's where the conspiracy ends.. frylock Jun 2013 #7

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