Mock "Liberal Senator Contest"

demoakotagurrl's idea.

But I think we should do this. Don't limit it to Democrats either.

Let's dig around and get voting records going back 20 years. Not forgetting things like AWB, which all senators voted for. Or wilderness votes, particularly in a Senator's state. Special interest type stuff.

Find a bunch of weird votes on Trent Lott, then spread across the blogs, "Trent Lott, Closet Liberal"

Find Byrd's conservative votes and say "liberal???"

Frist worked with Kerry on AIDS legislation, let the blogs run with "Frist, Sleeping With the Enemy?"

Whaddya think?

imagine supporters of Frist going up against supporters of another candidate and bringing up things where he worked with Kerry on to claim Frist is really a liberal or a sell out or whatever else.

Voted NO on including prescription drugs under Medicare. (Jun 2000)
Voted YES on limiting self-employment health deduction. (Jul 1999)
Voted NO on medical savings acounts. (Apr 1996)
Voted YES on allowing another round of military base closures. (May 1999)
Voted YES on cutting nuclear weapons below START levels. (May 1999)
Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the U.S. for farm work. (Jul 1998)
Voted YES on visas for skilled workers. (May 1998)
Voted NO on reducing marriage penalty instead of cutting top tax rates. (May 2001)
Voted NO on increasing tax deductions for college tuition. (May 2001)

Hmmm, are these conservative values?

instead of gays ,god,abortion then i think we might have something here.

And show it as proof that they are for "big government" and an "unbalanced budget". Tax'n'spenders, is what they are!

That is who Democrats are. Why would we all of a sudden get rig of being a big tent party?

Once again - if we follow the adolescent behavior of freepers and take pleasure in attacking people who are a 'little different that us' then we are no better than they.

Be adults. We live in a big Tent. We fully expect and accept our party representatives to vote for a whole range of issues, some like ours, some unlike ours. That is who we are. And if we cut out pieces of ourselves in order to act like Repuke Freepers (and give up the notion of belonging and understanding what a big tent means)then we are their tools.

Like I said before it doesn't matter if you are a Freeper/Troll Tool or the Tool of a FReeper/Troll. If you start acting like them and targeting your own members... when we rely on each and every member we have to regain the majority in 2 years... and cannot loose a one of them... then you have done their work.

Again I will ask that this single message "undo our big tent and act like adolescent" email get collapsed into one. Alert!!

That Democrats vote a variety of ways on issues and SO DO REPUBLICANS.

We lose for alot of reasons but one of the big ones is that the right portrays the ENTIRE Democratic Party as left of the Greens.

We have got to start making people look beyond the noise and sloganeering.