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2016 Postmortem

Liberal_Stalwart71

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10. This article is such bullshit! There are moderates in the Democratic Party. Too many for my taste.

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 05:10 PM

Mar 2012

But the Beltway Media story about how we lost the middle with Snowe is ludicrous! First, Olympia Snowe was not a reliable moderate. She voted with her party on major issues and went along with that party; hence, why Democrats burst a spleen trying to get 60 votes. If Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins were reliable moderates, we wouldn't need 60 votes!

Second, to suggest that there are no more moderates is ridiculous. The Right has moved "the middle" so far to the right that Democrats in the Senate have become so cowardly that they have moved with them.

I submit that we should be lamenting the fact that there are far fewer liberals than there are moderates and conservatives!

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This article is such bullshit! There are moderates in the Democratic Party. Too many for my taste. Liberal_Stalwart71 Mar 2012 #10

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