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Q3JR4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-01-09 08:31 PM
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100. I will be voting in local elections, but the national dems can
kiss my ass.

If you're the party in power and you want to retain that power then you need to give something to your base, otherwise your base is going to stay home or they are going to join your opposition (maybe not THE opposition but AN opposition).

This should be particularly daunting for the dems that win by the skin of their teeth.

Seriously. What else do you expect to happen? You think the people in your base are going to vote for you because the alternative is SO horrible? If you don't give them a reason to choose you over your competition, you may as well throw in the towel right now and consign yourself and your party to the trash heap.

I don't know why that's so hard to think about. Maybe the dems need to loose an election or two before they finally grow a pair and do what the American people mandated them to do.

Q3JR4.

Remembering the fallen.
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