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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:34 AM Original message |
Dems may lose, just as Labour Party has - betray your base and lose! |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. Saying, or hoping? nt |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Hoping for an opposition party to corporate rule |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I thought you meant the current oppo party, the one out of ideas |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Bullshit |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. You continue to impress... |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. I can completely agree with that and |
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AndyA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
5. The Dems need to get their shit together, now. Seriously. |
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EndElectoral (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
6. Obama is going to lose a lot of Dem's over healthcare without a significant change |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 02:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. So where do they go to get significant change, to Gingrich? |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
8. So far Obama has done lots of things I (and I think many in the "base") would agree with and some |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. But how long can the betrayals go on? |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. The base went and voted Conservative? |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. More likely, the base will stay home and keep their money in their bank accounts |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Where did the growth of the Conservative vote come from? |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Sorry, I was responding to the Sheehan/McCain part of your post |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
11. And that idea is completely fantasyland. |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 01:07 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. 95% of Democrats won't get you re-elected though.. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
15. The Dem base is made up of moderates |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
17. That's like the freepers saying a candidate lost an election because he wasn't right wing enough. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 03:15 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. i'm an independant.. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 04:22 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. If you don't vote you are still part of the outcome like it or not. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 05:59 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. there's nothing noble about enabling republican-lite policies either.. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 12:36 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. And that is worse then a repub government how? |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 02:57 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. at least you know what you're getting with a repub in office.. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
20. "All politics is local" Tip O'Neil Ideology has little to do with electoral success/failure. |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
25. We are not the Democratic base. |
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