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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:35 AM Original message |
We wanted Kerry to be like Howard Dean & he couldn't do it |
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polpilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. You can't beat Bush by being Bush lite. |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Exactly - but the DLC wanted finesse and not fire |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:48 AM Response to Reply #3 |
43. Fuck the DLC. They're fucking fired. |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:00 AM Response to Reply #3 |
47. Did a rough and raw Bush turn off (enough) voters? n/t |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. i didn't want Kerry to be Howard Dean |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. He was flawed as was Edwards |
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bklyncowgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Every candidate is flawed |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 08:16 AM Response to Reply #9 |
21. But Kerry was flawed on the basic issue of the election - war |
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candy331 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Still in denial I see, trot out some more of the same for 08 and get |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:47 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Yes - Dean's honesty is what endeared him to us |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:50 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. What is "DFA"? |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:54 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Democracy for America, my friend! |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:55 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Thanks, I will check it out (nt) |
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polpilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
16. Kerry was/is Kerry. The current cover of The Economist describes him |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:57 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. That is my impression as well and it drove me crazy |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 11:06 AM Response to Reply #16 |
48. LOL -- the answer to your quesetion: |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:39 AM Response to Reply #2 |
29. ...and then Kerry walked out on us. Yaaay for your guy. |
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RafterMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
7. Kerry's war rhetoric |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:52 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Perhaps you have stated it more accurately |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
10. Bush defined the war issue for Kerry and the Dems |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:59 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Why "deal" with Saddam at all? |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:12 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. You are right |
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wheresthemind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
11. I did not want Howard Dean... |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 07:54 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. You misunderstand due to the way I stated it |
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DemonFighterLives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
19. Kerry never knocked them off message |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 08:07 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Kerry was handicapped from the beginning with his war vote |
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DemonFighterLives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:26 AM Response to Reply #20 |
36. It was definitely muddled |
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Julien Sorel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 08:22 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Actually he did. |
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DemonFighterLives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:29 AM Response to Reply #22 |
37. All the pubbies can do |
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seaglass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
23. I didn't. I hope you know that you along with many others |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:06 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I am not a "Deaniac" |
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seaglass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:34 AM Response to Reply #24 |
38. I didn't say you were a Deaniac - I have no idea who you |
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LuminousX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:37 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. That isn't the point, Dean won't run in 2008 |
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Jersey Devil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:44 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Thank you for understanding what I was trying to say |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 05:13 PM Response to Reply #23 |
49. Hold on |
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davepc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
25. If Kerry was like Dean he would of done it. |
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AntiCoup2K4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:44 AM Response to Reply #25 |
31. I agreed with the Confederate flag statement when the Doc said it... |
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davepc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:51 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. thats not true. |
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GOPFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
27. Very, very few Dems could have beaten Bush this year. |
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MUSTANG_2004 (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:55 AM Response to Reply #27 |
35. Where's Lawton Chiles when you need him? |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
32. Whatever happened to "The most electable candidate"? |
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lynintenn (177 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
34. Bush ran an anti-intellectual campaign |
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wadestock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
39. About a month and a 1/2 ago.... |
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Snivi Yllom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
40. Kerry's nuanced multuiple postitions on Iraq did him in. |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:52 AM Response to Reply #40 |
45. STEP AWAY FROM THE KOOL-AID |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 06:06 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. Really? |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
41. Kerry got 48% against a sitting wartime president and he is a senator |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
42. Actually to his credit Kerry did several times accuse the president of |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
44. No "we" didn't. |
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RinaJ (134 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-04-04 10:53 AM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Thank you |
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