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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:16 PM
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Bush nominated a conservative. SHOCKING!
So Bush - a conservative President - nominated a conservative to a conservative majority Congress.

Now I know we want to fight every battle and all, but exactly how moderate a nominee does anyone think we're going to get if we even COULD defeat this one?
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:21 PM
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1. There is a BIG difference between an honest to goodness conservative
and the long list of right wing activist that bush and company continues to push onto the american people. this person is far, far right and not a true conservative. That term is suppose to mean a person who espouses individual liberties, Barry Goldwater comes to mind as a true conservative.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:23 PM
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2. Goldwater was decades ago. Face it, this is the party today. And the
question remains, how moderate do you think we're going to get from this administration?

I'd really like to know what the standard is for what we'll accept.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:27 PM
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4. Well I can speak for this Dem and female and say not this. I have little
or no power but I know this is wrong and I will do whatever I can to prevent it from happening.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:23 PM
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3. So you want to give up women's rights, civil rights, and
environmental protections? And just call it another day?

I think we owe our kids and grandkids more than that.

Like I said: lead, follow the GOP, or get out of the way.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:31 PM
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6. No, I don't WANT to give up any of those things. But I'm asking how
moderate a candidate we'll have to get before DU says okay.

Is that an unfair question?
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:32 PM
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7. Why should we say okay?
What fucking whit of good does it do? Why the rush to appease Bush and his 51% "man-date"?
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:35 PM
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13. What does an alternative get us?
If filibustering this nominee gets us more than it costs I'm onboard.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:38 PM
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16. I'm not there yet- see below
I want to see who this guy is and where he stands.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:33 PM
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:57 PM
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23. thats it you are right. everyone wants to just give up on womens rights
you pinned it. wow. found me out. that is it. i have spent years wasting my time fighting these assholes to exactly protect all our rights and in a flash, you are right. i WANT to GIVE UP womens rights, civil rights and enviromental protection

that makes sense doesnt it. we all in a flash became, bad people.

how about,.....this si fuckin what happens when you elect a fuckin repug president. they put these fuckin conservative assholes on the bench. why we all fuckin fought our ass off all this time to make sure bush wasnt elected

what is this shit,.....you want to give up womens rights.


what a fuckin attitude
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:31 PM
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5. Um, one that isn't going to overturn Roe, Griswold and Lawrence...
would be a fucking good place to start.

If they are going to overturn those decisions, then- fuck no, we SHOULD oppose him (or her)..what the hell do we have to lose?
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:34 PM
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11. Thank you - I appreciate your answer.
But what that leaves us with is a moderate to moderate-left candidate. And I don't see how we'll get that, given the numbers.

What we have to lose is a good question. And what I wonder is what filibustering this nominee will get us - will it get us a more liberal nominee? Will it get us more traction on opposing Bush? Will it get us ANYTHING?
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:37 PM
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15. Let's find out where he stands.
He's not Roy Moore, but I think there is cause to be concerned where civil liberties, reproductive rights and privacy issues are involved. I'll wait for the hearings. I'm, personally not saying filibuster the guy, yet- but I think we deserve honest answers on things like whether or not American citizens, for example, should have the right to use birth control without fear of arrest.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:45 PM
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19. I agree. I think the questioning should be vigorous and thorough.
But I think if our position becomes FILIBUSTER ANYONE WHO'S NOT ON OUR SIDE we're not going to get far.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:48 PM
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20. No, but you need to understand that reproductive choice, specifically
overturning Roe v. Wade, is a DEAL BREAKER for lots of people in this party.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:54 PM
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22. I do understand, absolutely. But I also understand the position we're
in - and we don't have the upper hand. :-(
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 12:08 AM
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24. Okay, but if that's the thing that is bringing many of our people to the
polls, don't be surprised when they give the big electoral finger to members of our party who sell them down the river on it.
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renaissanceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:33 PM
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8. Does it mean we should just roll over and give up?!
HELL FUCKING NO!

If you have any principles, you would fight to the end.

This is not a small little political job that lasts four years. This is a decision that affects the next thirty years of your life, and your kids' lives.


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.21326737
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:35 PM
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renaissanceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:44 PM
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18. If this doesn't qualify as "big,"
I don't know what is.

Geez. This is the next thirty fucking years of our lives.

WAKE UP, PEOPLE.


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.21326737
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:50 PM
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renaissanceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-20-05 12:17 AM
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25. You have twisted logic.
NO WAY should we support someone we strongly oppose. Talking MSM heads bitch about us not having any principles or ideas. Well, this is the time to distinguish ourselves from the repugs.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:34 PM
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10. Not shocking. Expected.
I thought we all expected a fight on this.

Do we suddenly have other plans or something?
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:37 PM
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14. So what battles, exactly, are we Democrats going to fight?
????

I mean a few months ago people were advocating that the Democrats should filibuster Gonzales (who will only be around for a few years as Attorney General), and now this website is full of defeatist attitudes about a decision that could significantly effect this country for the next two or three decades. I don't get it. I think we lost this fight back in November, but I don't know what the Democrats in the Senate have left to lose at this point. I expect them to try to do something about this horrid nominee whose views are in line only with a fringe slice of American society.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-19-05 11:39 PM
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17. I think that's the question. We are the minority party and we have
limited resources.

What should we fight is precisely the question I'm asking - HOW moderate does the canndidate have to be?
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