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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 06:31 PM
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Oath Keepers founder hopes to rally liberals when Dems fall from power
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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is officially non-partisan, though you wouldn't know it by the group's strongly right-leaning image, cultivated through advocacy by conservative political pundits and frequent Oath Keepers appearances at tea parties around the country.

But if you ask him, he'll say that it won't always be this way. One day relatively soon, Democrats will once again become the minority. When that happens, Rhodes said he plans to "switch" Oath Keepers' political image and begin focusing on Democrats and progressives freshly eager to rhetorically target Republicans and their inevitable abuses of power.

Call it the hybridization of anti-partisan politics, at least partially internalized within the police and military structures of America.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0505/exclusive-oath-keepers-to-switch-focus-to-liberals/

I'd rather join the Scientologists than those cretins.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 06:32 PM
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1. I'm sure it would be akin to masturbating with a cheese grader...
Edited on Wed May-05-10 06:33 PM by YOY
Slightly interesting, mostly painful, and in the long run damaging as can be.
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katandmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 06:33 PM
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2. Yeah, knock yourself out.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 06:34 PM
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3. So, basically, this guy is against the political party occupying the White House.
Got it.

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liberal_at_heart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 06:43 PM
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4. I am my own person and am not easily swayed
I am not happy with the democrats and unless there are some progressives to vote for probably won't vote for a democrat, but I'm certainly not going to start following this guy. I am no sheep for either side.
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PM Martin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 06:47 PM
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5. Again, these are the same goons who
went after Clinton with vengeance, yet were the cheerleaders for Mr. Bush's violation of the law.
It seems that when Democrats(non-rightists) get power, the far right goes insane and does anything to undermine the Democrat in power.
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:03 PM
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6. Good luck to him in reconciling polar opposites
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