This should be a Democratic Party platform.

Great thing is, Dems have so MANY wonderful possible candidates. The other side? All stinkers.

I'll admit that even though I've subscribed to his newsletter a long time, I'd never actually seen a picture of him until recently - and I had to ask someone, whozzat?

We need to vet candidates at the school board, county board and township board level, then prepare them for bigger stages.

That's what ralph reed told republi-CONS everywhere during the 80s. Start by running for school board. And county council. Or local commissioner or something. Yes. Run for dog-catcher. Start small and work up. Build your infrastructure and alliances and mentorships and connections. Then start moving up. Before you know it, the Senate or the Governorship is calling... or some such thing.

We need a thorough house cleaning, and no more settling for "better than the other guy". That thinking got us where we are now - with DINOs who are pandering to the GOP and unwilling to take a firm stand for true, time tested Democratic ideals.

... is in the primaries, when selecting Democratic candidates. Once the candidate is selected, it is imperative that we line up behind him or her.

We are a Duopoly, there's no getting around it. Unlike the parliamentary system in most of Europe, we are given a stark choice, a binary choice: it's either "us" or "them", Democrat or Republican. The choices at the margin just split the ticket and usher in a win for the other side. Really.

I have beloved this one for a very long time.
The neocons are Lin it for one reason, get rich!

But somehow without even talking about they all seem to fly the same way

Hey, maybe it could be both

Do love the guy!!

His wife (Connie Schultz) is also awesome.

(Notice I'm not saying anything about the other Senator from Ohio ... he's a Republican tool.)

the people doing without, the folks with no voice. You get the feeling sometimes that they don't know we exist.

He takes me back to the days in Ohio of Sen. Glenn and Sen. Metzenbaum.

We weren't always the land ruled by the likes of Kasich and Mike DeWine and Co.

The objective monetary incentive leads to the ideology.

The ideology determines that constraints upon actors in acquiring an objective monetary incentive are "unpatriotic."

Actors collude secretly to violate constraints in order to obtain an objective monetary objective, i.e. conspire; see Cheney v U.S. District Court.

their mission is shrink govt to the size of a bathtub so they can drown it by continually inventing conspiracy theories like Benghazi, Climate Change, Fast Furious, Obamacare, ad nauseum destroying Americans confidence in govt. THeir goal: Destroy govt and replace with privatization.

..of this guy--

It is greed, and they will (meaning all the republicans) not think twice about killing anyone or anything that stands in their way....
How sick is that?! But I believe it to be true.

I'd vote for Sherrod Brown without hesitance. Hillary, only because she'd be better than a Republican. I'm having my doubts that Hillary will run. Perhaps we should push for Sherrod Brown's candidacy.

Besides, ideologically, she is in the wrong camp.

I'm only pointing this out. (I'm just saying)

... the Post Office (USPS). Greed is at the bottom of every ill we face today.

What a breath of fresh air.

The party leadership/brain trust/whatever put its support behind Sherrod when he was competing with a very popular liberal vet (I am kicking myself for not remembering his name). I myself wanted the vet because he was saying such good stuff and he was clever in his commercials. But the leadership wanted Brown and they got him.

As much as I liked he other guy, it really appears that Sherrod was the drop dead right choice.

Now if I could just remember his name, the other guy! Memory is the first thing to go. Can't remember what the second thing is.

I also find my memory going, but WIYF (Wikipedia Is Your Friend). Hackett's bio is here.

Conspiracy- An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

Conspiracy theory- A theory seeking to explain a disputed case or matter as a plot by a secret group or alliance rather than an individual or isolated act.

nt

for the party.

Thanks for the thread, Scuba.

K&R