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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,719 posts)
1. No worries. He's not going to be pres.
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 12:24 AM
Mar 2015

I would tell you what body part I would wager that he won't be but I don't want to come off as a vulgarian.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
2. We need to regroup and reintroduce the
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 12:27 AM
Mar 2015

benefits of unions to the American people. Walker the idiot is selling that you can be part of a union if you want to but if you don't want to you don't have too. The problem is that once a part of the union stops getting money from all workers, the union can't survive. We as progressives need to retake the message. If we don't I don't see how this stops. And we need to show why having a choice to belong to a union is wrong and mandatory membership and dues is important. We need to start yesterday.

padfun

(1,792 posts)
3. I want him to be the presidential candidate
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 12:38 AM
Mar 2015

Either him or Ron Paul. I don't think either has a chance as they are too conservative.

He's close now because he is a new commodity to those who don't pay attention but that always catches up. If he turns far right to win the clown party, there will be too much damage for the big election. That is, if enough Dems show up to vote and that is not yet in the bag.

hedda_foil

(16,376 posts)
13. You must have missed what happened when the Republicans nominated a bad movie actor for President.
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 02:20 AM
Mar 2015

Everyone scoffed that he was unelectable too. The lesson from that experience? Don't tempt fate.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
7. He compared good Americans who oppose him politically to ISIS.
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 12:42 AM
Mar 2015

He's good at playing games on his home turf. He'll play like a badly-tuned banjo on the national stage. I agree about zero charisma. And he has a face full of perma-derp.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,719 posts)
8. It was dumb on two levels...
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 12:44 AM
Mar 2015

Union members are , of course, not ISIS, and defeating ISIS is a lot different than defeating a bunch of civil servants.


a kennedy

(29,754 posts)
10. and I'm so embarressed to say........ My husband hates the million dollar athletes....
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 01:19 AM
Mar 2015

and all their money. Are sport athletes included on the 1%'ers???

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,719 posts)
11. Most but not all of them are African Americans, many from impoverished or working class families...
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 01:22 AM
Mar 2015

Most but not all of them are African Americans, many from impoverished working, or middle class families... Look at that as winning the genetic lottery and then putting in a lot of work...

a kennedy

(29,754 posts)
12. Thank you.... I really don't know what to say to him when he so fixated on the money they make.
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 01:41 AM
Mar 2015

I try to say that the life of most athletes are about a third of normal working people, and they do burn out so fast. He doesn't see it that way. He just sees the millions upon millions in a contract running along the bottom of the ESPN's screen. I don't know what to say, about it. They DO make a lot of money. I think they all deserve it too. JMHO.

 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
16. Watch the knuckledraggers rally around him a la Palin and GW Bush
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 01:34 PM
Mar 2015

Our idiot friends on the right don't like their political candidates to be smarter than they are.

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