Salon: A left-wing Tea Party may be closer than you think

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63. That's putting out some wild assumptions and some faux history

For the record, the first time I was allowed to vote, it was in 1971, it was for a Republican, and I doubt there is ONE member of DU who would have voted differently. I was in college in Philadelphia, and the Democrats ran their oafish, corrupt police commissioner, Frank Rizzo, against a modest, unassuming administrative type named Thatcher Longstreth. Rizzo won, Phildelphia went farther downhill than it already was, and Rizzo quickly switched to the Republicans, where he belonged in the first place.

Also, voting for fracking was OK with me in the 1970s? I have ALWAYS been against fracking--anywhere, any time--since I first heard of it, which was less than 10 years ago. My views of fracking in the 1970s were about as developed as my views at the time on the merits of Google Chrome.

And as to my posts expounding on the merits of drone murder, teacher purges, union-busting and offshore drilling--would you mind refreshing me on just where and when I posted anything of the sort? Maybe I'm in the initial stages of Alzheimer's, but I just can't for the life of me recall ever having taken such positions.