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In reply to the discussion: Salon: When a party flirts with suicide [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)11. You are pulling the string too hard. The comparison is as follows: Goldwater=Batshit Crazy.
They aren't trying to do a line-by-line, issue-by-issue, comparison. This is a macro look, not a micro one.
Our nominee has been chosen--his name is Obama.
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I'm really enjoying George Will being upset about this ... after all, he helped cause it.
JoePhilly
Jan 2012
#2
Obama *is* the Democratic candidate, regardless of whom the Republicans nominate.
tblue37
Jan 2012
#9
If you want a liberal candidate, you do not keep the candidate from knowing such views.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#10
If LBJ would have stuck with Civil Rights and not reversed NSAM 263 w NSAM 273, no lengthy defense
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#24
No way he would have forced Congress to pass the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 or the voting act of 1965
happyslug
Jan 2012
#33
You're right, the SCOTUS argument is specious. But if history is a guide, Reid will simply say that
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#27
You are pulling the string too hard. The comparison is as follows: Goldwater=Batshit Crazy.
MADem
Jan 2012
#11
Six of one, half dozen of the other. He's the guy. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deep in fantasy
MADem
Jan 2012
#14
The "mushy middle" is a term of disparagement and contempt, not endearment or respect.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#17
The "mushy middle" wants Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and probably single payer health care
Doctor_J
Jan 2012
#19
No it isn't. It's reality. There is a big mushy mess of people in the middle. They are not like
MADem
Jan 2012
#26
There's a good reason why you never suggested that Obama used the term "mushy middle."
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2012
#28
ah, yes, the familiar lament from the right - "Don't tell me the truth - it's too depressing"
Doctor_J
Jan 2012
#29
You are entitled to your flawed opinion. Repeating it doesn't make it any more true than it was
MADem
Jan 2012
#30
So you are admitting that he won't have bigger majorities than he did the first time
Doctor_J
Jan 2012
#31
Gingrich, the perfect first abuser of Evidence-Free Indefinite Detention of US Citizens.
blkmusclmachine
Jan 2012
#15
You have to wonder what moderate Republicans are going to do if the right wing continues
neverforget
Jan 2012
#35