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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:07 PM Original message |
OK, fine. we have lots of common ground with the teabaggers |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. There is not common ground other then anger at "the system". |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
2. they want proof that Obama was not born in Kenya and isn't a Muslim |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
3. Speak for yourself |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. The common ground is economic, why can't we work with that? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:13 PM Original message |
but their solutions are diametrically opposed from ours |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
11. You mean the 600 people at the er...convention, or the rest of the country? |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. the OP was about teabaggers |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. no, I mean the millions of people who agree with those at the convention |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I'm confused. Why did these millions of people vote for Obama Change? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. uh, who said they did? I doubt very much that those folks voted for Obama |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. they didn't vote for Obama |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. Ummm, they didn't, you seem to have forgotten McCain/Palin... |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
45. The Right didn't. |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:36 PM Response to Reply #17 |
36. It has popular support because people are angry and fed up with estalbishment politics |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:45 PM Response to Reply #36 |
46. influenced into bad thinking? that's a snobby attitude. |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:23 PM Response to Reply #46 |
55. Black is white, up is down, we've always been at war with eurasia |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:27 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. lame. the last refuge of someone who can't offer a cogent response |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 12:19 AM Response to Reply #58 |
69. A cogent response to what, exactly? |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
44. Only it isn't... |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
5. The big stumbling block to getting with the populists on the |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 07:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
67. yea, it doesn't help that the people they listen to are professional liars |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. Teabaggers are nothing but Republicans in disguise. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
26. Republican voters are humans in disguise. |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Exactly. |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:41 PM Response to Reply #26 |
41. I don't buy it. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:26 PM Response to Reply #41 |
56. So who is the 'hater'? |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
7. Isn't Hartmann backing away from the idea now? /nt |
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T Wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. I too do not see much that "we" have in common with "them" - especially on the more |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
9. Teabaggers are mostly independents and we need their votes. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Why? What makes you think that these particular independents |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. my biological family is rife with teabaggers and they have never |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:36 PM Response to Reply #15 |
37. Economics are primary |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:40 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. but their solutions to the economic problems persists as a nonworkable scenario |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:39 PM Response to Reply #40 |
62. If you admit that they are being used |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:16 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Not really. They're Ross Perot Republicans. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Perot also drew Democrats |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:20 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. that's why they paid Sarah Palin 6 over 100k for a speech |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:28 PM Response to Reply #9 |
30. ROFL! |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
47. Independents that either just left the sinking USS GOP or always |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
13. I have no common ground with these people. They are haters and recists. n/t |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. I know you don't Raven, but plenty of folks here believe |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Jesus Cali! This is scarey. n/t |
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Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
16. I don't have any common ground with them. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
18. Repealing NAFTA is the only thing that comes to mind. |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
23. "They push FOR corporatism." |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
28. Protect self-government & elections so that our Disagreements are RELEVANT, for starters. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Tea baggers didn't organize against bushco bailouts |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:32 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Yes, they did. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:35 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. I said the tea party stuff itself didn't start until after Obama was elected |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:42 PM Response to Reply #35 |
42. "Tea Party" is just a name for the same ideas and same outrage that existed before |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:11 PM Response to Reply #42 |
50. It was a Left/Right coalition that defeated the first House bailout bill. 2d just rushed thru... |
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Joe the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
33. It's like the jews trying to work with the Nazi's, it ain't happening..... |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
38. I think that the only thing that the far right has in common with the left... |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
39. And here is the basic issue with Democrats. |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
43. I have nothing in common with them. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
48. There are a lot of people who are fed up |
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MadBadger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:09 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Obama didnt lead this group. They are well on the fringe and have always hated him. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:15 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. All I know is the numbers |
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MadBadger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:19 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. But its ludicrous to think that all independents are moderates. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:26 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. Yes, the organizers of the baggers are indeed quite far right |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:29 PM Response to Reply #52 |
59. independents don't all have the same ideology. |
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KonaKane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
51. What a load of crap. |
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leftofcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
54. Cali, here are a couple of specifics |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #54 |
60. thanks. well, yes, that is the rub. |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
61. "How do you organize with people who despise what you |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
63. By engaging, and educating, there is a video here at D.U. but I can't find it of a young man |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #63 |
64. Thanks for the response, Joe. |
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bergie321 (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
65. We can pull them to our side |
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MadBadger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 07:38 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. They only watch Fox News |
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Tace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-08-10 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
68. We Share At Least 50% Of The Same Genes |
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