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In reply to the discussion: Left wants challenger for Hillary Clinton [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)to donate money, sizeable amounts of money, to a segment of the party that chants mantras about money with a corporate account is filthy lucre, or the sort?
Truly, I think it's mostly the anti-Hillary group, but when asked if not "her", then who are just frustrated? Just more denouncing of the money she can raise, $200,000 a speech you go girl, that's she's in bed with them, ad nauseum. Hell, even our own...Alan Grayson got some negative vibes...ugh.
No comment to the fact that there is not one D Senator on the Progressive Caucus list, as opposed to several R Senators aggressively working for one of many incarnations of the "Hell, No Caucus". That list needs a few Senators with a D after their name We can still really, really manage to work locally, for 2014, but anyone who thinks we can just pick it up then for 2016 either isn't watching the Republicans or thinking with their no-no-no-no brain. Alan Grayson is a member. Thank you, Congressman.
Republicans have no problem asking for money, waving their dog whistles ... a black man's photo, an uppity white woman's photo. They are already out of the gate...cheering while we do our best to bench our first string player with the Red Letter H...the only one who can beat any of them, at present, have no sub or anyone much in training. What a political donation...in the wrong direction.
I'm not the biggest Hillary fan, but I am a fan of a D winning. And people seem to forget here, some of us remember the first health plan that was put forth was Hillarycare. Just Say No does not elect a President.
You can't have it both ways...either send the candidates back to Chicken Supper Pot Lucks, After-Church Meets, Little League games, passing the hat around, Senior Citizen's homes, maybe send them a $10 check and wish them well. Or we can make burgers out of the no-corporate-money sacred cows and get on with the program. Even then we might not win, but it would make us "players" instead of "No-no-noers".
Or, just stay home and pout until the Magical Thinking gets old.