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Aristus

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19. Ideological orthodoxy. That's why we fail. Our candidates don't have it.

Reply to Ninga (Original post)

Tue Aug 1, 2017, 12:08 PM

Aug 2017

Al Gore often steered a middle course. So a bunch of sniffy, disapproving Naderites torpedoed his campaign.

John Kerry something something DINO something else, so Democrats stayed home in 2004.

Hillary Clinton sent e-mails and stuff, and was seen walking down Wall Street in New York City as if she, you know, lived in New York, or something, then something something else, unreliable, something, DINO, something, corporate something Bernie Sanders is a real progressive, something else, I'm staying home on Nov. 8th, 2016.

In a nutshell, there are people out there who would actually prefer to have Trump for President than vote for a complex candidate.

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Please, I beg you, understand there are more of us, then them.... [View all] Ninga Aug 2017 OP

Anti-Choice Democrats are as fundamentally wrong as Anti- Social Security Democrats Chasstev365 Aug 2017 #1

Yep they have. I wonder how many people here, are devoted, regular voters. Ninga Aug 2017 #4

The quickest way to ensure that women lose their right to choose is to play purity politics Demsrule86 Aug 2017 #9

The quickest way to lose women's support is to put our reproductive rights on the bargaining table. CrispyQ Aug 2017 #13

+++1000 BadgerMom Aug 2017 #16

A few back benchers from red states won't hurt you...and it may give us a majority who will stop the Demsrule86 Aug 2017 #25

especially AlexSFCA Aug 2017 #26

In some states pro-choice candidate can not win. WVA and Nebraska come to mind. Demsrule86 Aug 2017 #2

I hear you. Been there and done that. Again, they win, because they vote. Nt Ninga Aug 2017 #5

There are not enough liberals in those states to elect a liberal candidate especially on Demsrule86 Aug 2017 #7

There is a faction of leftists who are actively working against us. apcalc Aug 2017 #3

I see it and in Ohio feel it in the support of those who stand by their anti-establishment Ninga Aug 2017 #6

Despite their big 'leftist' talk...these folks are not progressive or liberals. They may be Green Demsrule86 Aug 2017 #8

You can vote against someone just as easy wasupaloopa Aug 2017 #10

Yesterday I suggested perhaps the dem party court the non-voters, instead of the anti-choice voters. CrispyQ Aug 2017 #11

+1 leftstreet Aug 2017 #12

I think dem leadership has gotten lazy. CrispyQ Aug 2017 #14

Fools Gold???? lebkr Aug 2017 #18

Yes, we'll never win over the deplorables hibbing Aug 2017 #15

Our voters are increasingly concentrated in fewer areas IronLionZion Aug 2017 #17

Ideological orthodoxy. That's why we fail. Our candidates don't have it. Aristus Aug 2017 #19

Your last sentence is a spectacular one-liner! So so true. May use it? Nt Ninga Aug 2017 #21

Yes, please. Aristus Aug 2017 #22

Thx! Ninga Aug 2017 #23

I wish they would get it. calimary Aug 2017 #20

K & R Duppers Aug 2017 #24