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Blue_true

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13. We don't need to be in lock step and should realize

Reply to Bettie (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 06:46 PM

Mar 2017

and accept that we disagree on 10-15% of issues, but one group should not be setting out to blow up our candidates because of those small differences, especially when the efforts involve virulent attacks on our best candidates - that conduct only helps republicans get elected and set back our shared goals tremendously.

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for real anarch Mar 2017 #10

The radical left has me enraged. It's like someone Blue_true Mar 2017 #5

So, we must always be fully in lockstep Bettie Mar 2017 #6

We don't need to be in lock step and should realize Blue_true Mar 2017 #13

So, what exactly do you mean by Bettie Mar 2017 #19

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Right? Cary Mar 2017 #20

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