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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:43 PM
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so, what do we think of this threat of a centrist third party candidate?
You know, what Sam Nunn and his buddies have been discussing if we don't all become bipartisan. Sorry if I've missed earlier discussions.

What say you, DU?
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:44 PM
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1. But we're going to become centrist.
Hope. Change. Blah blah blah.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:48 PM
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4. heh.
Yeah.
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:46 PM
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2. Who? that's the question. nt
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:49 PM
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5. isn't Bloomberg the one under discussion?
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Rockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:47 PM
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3. Watch out.
You are about to get called Un-American, un-Democratic, and a troll. I would suggest putting a raincoat on.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:51 PM
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6. oh hell.
I've got scars on my scars. I'll be ok. Thanks, though. :D
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cloudbase Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:52 PM
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7. Given today's stance,
we'd have to move to the left to become centrist.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:58 PM
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10. there's that, yes.
:D
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:54 PM
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8. If the third party candidate takes more votes from the Repugs, more power to them.
I think I remember reading that a Bloomberg candidacy would actually hurt them more than it would hurt us. But I don't quite understand the point of another "centrist" running; the D and the R usually try as hard as they can to appear to be centrists in the general election as is.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:02 PM
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12. they seem to have a cramp with Edwards.
I'm told below that a JE nomination would guarantee Dem centrist support for an independent. :shrug:
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 05:55 PM
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9. Won't happen is Obama is the nominee...if Edwards wins OTOH...
You can count on it...
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:00 PM
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11. why is that?
What about Edwards would so alienate those folks?
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 06:15 PM
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13. no one else wants to play? isn't this "splinterism"?
Seven years of conservative apoplexy over Nader, and we're not going to discuss the "centrist" apostasy?

Pity.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 07:13 PM
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14. kick for discussion.
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Rockholm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 08:40 PM
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15. Well, I was verbally destroyed and attacked yesterday....
I made a statement that if Obama was the nominee AND if Bloomberg ran as an Independent, I would vote for Bloomberg. Never mind that a majority of the Obama people are former Kucinich people. Remember them? They all said that if Hillary were the nominee, they would stay home.
I get raked over the coals because I don't particularly care for Obama at this juncture (and at the rate his supporters are taking over this board, I may not ever like him). The Hillary-haters will hate her NO MATTER WHAT.
I was accused of being a freeper. Nice. That is what we have sunk to with the name calling.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-08-08 10:48 PM
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16. no one?
Horrified at Nader, but you're going to submit to the GOP Phantasm?
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