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JSup

(740 posts)
2. They really shouldn't...
Wed May 25, 2016, 03:31 AM
May 2016

...I would certainly be disappointed in 'my' team.

I don't like rules, unwritten or otherwise, changing in the middle of the 'game'.

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
4. It's not a rule change for the Washington State DEM Party
Wed May 25, 2016, 03:39 AM
May 2016

It's part of the process. But I agree with you, we have to unify the party and the Bernie folks would become unhinged if that happened. It's not worth it. We have to unify to defeat NAZI Trump.

MFM008

(19,818 posts)
5. Why would you say that?
Wed May 25, 2016, 03:51 AM
May 2016

The caucus system sucks I don't care who wins it. Obama won it in 2008 and I was there.
It stinks.
The primary ballots went out to every registered voter in this state,
Im sure it pulled in more people than a meeting in a school gym at 1030 am on a Saturday morning for 3 hours.
Hot overcrowded and badly run.
Ballots run like glass.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
7. Brock is coming for us.
Wed May 25, 2016, 04:56 AM
May 2016

I wonder if Skinner is actually happy about this influx of diruptive elements. It's possible that it may help his preferred candidate - and perhaps not even that, but at the same time it is likely to hurt his life's work beyond recovery.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
9. You are, of course, assuming what Skinner's life work is. I would not be so bold.
Wed May 25, 2016, 05:13 AM
May 2016

As they say in sitcoms, "I don't know him like that."

But, the Brockolis/Brockettes are not coming for us. They're here. At least, a lot of them are. Some of them have been here for years. Some since October and some since May 2. So, I finally changed my sig line. Resistance is futile. May as well welcome them. Embrace the false flags ops.

http://jackpineradicals.org/showthread.php?11573-The-Sit-Down-and-Shut-Up-Award-and-Other-Realities&p=71850#post71850

Be one with Winston Smith. You know you want to.

Jack Bone

(2,023 posts)
8. Seriously, I can't imagine her winning anything.
Wed May 25, 2016, 04:58 AM
May 2016

She's as strong of a candidate as Mondale was in '84.

tried & true Democrats LOVE her....AND that's about it.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
10. Did polls show Mondale was considered dishonest and untrustworthy and unlikeable, or
Wed May 25, 2016, 05:17 AM
May 2016

was he just not exciting?

He said he knew he lost the day Reagan made the crack about his opponent's inexperience. If true, you'd think he (Mondale) would have tried anything to correct course.



The best part is that he's still being cited as having been too liberal to win. Comedy gold, yet people still fall for it.

Jack Bone

(2,023 posts)
11. I don't know....I posted on how the party faithful followed him,
Wed May 25, 2016, 05:25 AM
May 2016

it looks very much like today. even though there was a firebrand challenger there that had the needed energy to defeat Reagan...in Sen. Hart, but the party stuck w/ the known quantity that represented the past.

just remembering...I guess.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
12. In 1980, Ted Kennedy would have had a much better shot at defeating Reagan than Carter had.
Wed May 25, 2016, 05:36 AM
May 2016

However, the Party stopped him, then claimed that Carter lost because he had been damaged by a primary battle. LOL! Carter was damaged long before the primary battle by Night Line, people waiting on long lines to gas up their cars, etc. And he lost because of those things and because Reagan was such a well known and charismatic candidate. However, the primary challenge story has been used ever since to pretend a primary challenge to an incumbent is a sacrilege.

And now, they're even treating their non-incumbent picks as incumbents, so people entering a primary are considered "challengers" as opposed to just another primary candidate. Meanwhile, Mondale's loss was used as an excuse to introduce super delegates, which the right of the Party had been trying to do for years anyway. Bash liberals; reduce intra-party democracy. Two recurrent themes in the Democratic Party for a long, long time.

 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
13. Wasn't Hart an idiot who was cheating on his wife and challenged
Wed May 25, 2016, 05:40 AM
May 2016

the press to prove it, so they did?

It's the lying and arrogance that always gets them....

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