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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:01 PM Original message |
I think that we will see the emergence of a psuedo Third Party, a fake "Moderate" Party |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. Silly. Third parties never work. |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. Nope. |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Well, that's my point. And yet he had some small success. |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. The Tea Bag stuff was seen as a joke by pretty much everyone. |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. I think that was establishing a baseline. |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:25 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. And these people differ from the GOP how, exactly? |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:36 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. They differ very little. My hypotheses is that it is mostly GOP, but just in a different guise |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:47 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. My point is that they're Republicans. |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:34 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. No - I think the tea bag stuff was GOP strategists grasping for a meme |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:50 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Agreed. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. You also realize that the other moderate third party to |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. yep. nt |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. I bet a brazillion dollars we don't, within the next decade. |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. The number of "the Republican Party is dead...permanently" threads... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:11 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Are these people like 12 years old or something? Selective amnesia? |
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TwilightZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:12 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I have no idea. |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. take it to the bank |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Good thought |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
7. I think they'll re-brand themselves, but under the same old GOP name |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
12. It will be to politics what Xe is to mercenaries. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
13. It would make more sense if those names with funding |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
14. Unless there is a complete overhaul of the way we elect congress |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
18. What they should do... |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-28-09 10:31 PM Response to Original message |
20. I see two scenarios |
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