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In reply to the discussion: Dole: 'I doubt' I could make it in today's GOP [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)4. Your post paints with a mighty broad brush.
Even the most cynical here can't help but admit that there is plenty of room in the Democratic Party for negotiation and compromise, but that's no longer the case within the Republican Party.
If you don't believe me, ask the posters here on this site who are more than perturbed and who take every chance they get to post that President Obama is the "Caver in Chief" and that Harry Reid has a rubber spine.
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Obama tries to get bipartisanship from Republicans. Reid works to get people across the aisle
Nanjing to Seoul
May 2013
#37
Republicans want 100% or nothing at all, Democrats are willing to let the debate be over and gain 0%
ck4829
May 2013
#12
The real problem was Gingrich and his bogus Contract with America -- Tea Party precursor.
Buzz Clik
May 2013
#49
That's exactly the point: the GOP is what Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Dole, McCain, etc Made It
Demeter
May 2013
#42
Gov. Ray Shafer of PA .... next door neighbor's brother as a little kid ... very middle class area
Botany
May 2013
#9
Dole once said that his vote for Medicare is the one he regretted most. Fuck Dole and his lousy
byeya
May 2013
#15
That's a might big "if" though. Not big enough, in my book, to vote for a Republican.
nomorenomore08
May 2013
#34