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yallerdawg

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11. Your path to national victory is to purge the Democratic Party.

Reply to AgingAmerican (Reply #8)

Sat May 9, 2015, 12:45 PM

May 2015

Or does it just apply to the primary?

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How'd that work out? MaggieD May 2015 #1

The first rule of "talking about the 1980 election" is... JHB May 2015 #5

+1. n/t winter is coming May 2015 #9

Exactly (nt) MaggieD May 2015 #16

Do people generally know about the October Surprise angle of the hostage crisis? Jackpine Radical May 2015 #27

+1 daleanime May 2015 #46

"Generally"? No, and I tend to be cautious about bringing it up... JHB May 2015 #51

True. Another error is about Kennedy's run. it wasn't that he entered too late. hedda_foil May 2015 #38

Then the party moved to the right JonLP24 May 2015 #7

Jimmy Carter was one of the most liberal presidents we've had MaggieD May 2015 #17

Jimmy Carter continued the deregulation ball that Ford started AZ Progressive May 2015 #21

No one at the time considered Carter a liberal. winter is coming May 2015 #24

There is so much revisionism around Jimmy Carter DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #25

Oddly enough, he got a lot of good publicity by palling sufrommich May 2015 #33

He also quoted Bob Dylan in his acceptance speech DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #39

Yeah, I remember that. I wonder if Carter was the first sufrommich May 2015 #43

In some ways he was a very adroit politician... DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #44

I think Carter had very good instincts when it came to how to sufrommich May 2015 #45

He was the most conservative major Dem candidate. Jackpine Radical May 2015 #28

I was too young to vote but I would have supported Jerry Brown. DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #41

O, Lord-- Jackpine Radical May 2015 #52

Thanks for proving no candidate is liberal enough MaggieD May 2015 #30

Um... BrotherIvan May 2015 #54

Yeah - just like they found Obama MaggieD May 2015 #55

It wasn't a year until Obama started using Bush era arguments JonLP24 May 2015 #35

These are fundamentally different times AZ Progressive May 2015 #42

I'm out there arguing the same thing pretty much JonLP24 May 2015 #47

Carter ran as a social liberal / fiscal conservative Agnosticsherbet May 2015 #50

In political science it's known as 'The pendulum effect" AgingAmerican May 2015 #2

It swings all the way right. yallerdawg May 2015 #3

Yep AgingAmerican May 2015 #4

When was the last time Democrats held the Presidency for a 3rd term in a row? yallerdawg May 2015 #6

The DEMOCRATIC PARTY is swinging back to the left AgingAmerican May 2015 #8

Your path to national victory is to purge the Democratic Party. yallerdawg May 2015 #11

I will never understand Democratic defeatism AgingAmerican May 2015 #12

But you do undertand Democratic defeats. yallerdawg May 2015 #15

You really need to take a basic course in poly sci AgingAmerican May 2015 #20

I think the Dems can win a 3rd term if they're not simply offering more of the same. n/t winter is coming May 2015 #10

Is that more Clinton? More Obama? yallerdawg May 2015 #13

That's "more centrist". winter is coming May 2015 #14

How is it "swinging" back? MaggieD May 2015 #18

The Democratic party is swinging back to the left. AgingAmerican May 2015 #19

Thanks to midterm apathy and gerrymandering AZ Progressive May 2015 #22

This message was self-deleted by its author AZ Progressive May 2015 #23

What did you expect during a primary? Or did you not want a primary? djean111 May 2015 #26

How about you take your cue from Sanders MaggieD May 2015 #29

Purist is a strawman AgingAmerican May 2015 #31

Tearing down democrats is not a recipe for victory MaggieD May 2015 #34

Same strawman, different post AgingAmerican May 2015 #36

That sounds like the rethug canard... MaggieD May 2015 #40

How about giving examples of how "purists" here lined up to tear down Democrats after elections? MrMickeysMom May 2015 #49

"Purist", "basher", and "hater" are all large neon "Don't take me seriously" signs. winter is coming May 2015 #37

there it is BrotherIvan May 2015 #53

I'd bash Sanders if he was wrong on any issue I feel he is wrong on JonLP24 May 2015 #48

You should read "The Other America" and "Toward A Democratic Left" DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #32