Make a list of the things that would annihilate the Republican Party

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Not enough is being down to drag the GOP through the mud and 'barbed wire'
Let's make a list.....

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

1. Holy Water (nt)

[awoke_in_2003]

29. ...

:spray:

[AspenRose]

48. !

:spray: :rofl:

[Lasher]

2. Dissemination of truth.

They would be like vampires in sunlight.

[Forkboy]

3. Facts.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Strongly-held and strongly-applied Democratic government

After 4 years of FDR's love, the Senate was down to 17 Republicans.

[Mimosa]

14. +1000

And an educated electorate.

Reviving the Fairness Doctrine might help too.

[phantom power]

56. +oo

[Forkboy]

74. DUzy!

[baldguy]

5. A well-educated, well-informed electorate.

[maxsolomon]

59. not just any education

for instance, Ethics > Business, Humanities > Engineering. not saying the technical should be discarded, but the emphasis needs to be put on qualitative over quantitative.

so many Americans are devoid of empathy and compassion. they cannot see themselves in another's shoes.

[lob1]

6. Attack them for wanting to kill social security.

[tabatha]

7. +100

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. Not a lot of people know the Republicans want to kill social security

[lob1]

20. That's why we have to tell them.

Boner wants to raise the age of getting s.s. to 70. Every teabagger has video of them saying they want to kill it or privatize it. It might even put some heat on our blue dogs as serve to keep them in line. One can hope.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

21. the policy of the Dem Party is NOT to axe SS

whether there are closet republicans in the party the party still want to save SS.

[rucky]

8. They love corporate welfare.

[damonm]

9. Repeat, repeat, REPEAT...

Republicans voted AGAINST tax cuts for average Americans and small business.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. not a lot of people know that either

[formercia]

10. Silver Bullets and wooden stakes.

:rofl:

[valerief]

11. Bombs, ebola, sharing. nt

[rug]

12. Boric acid.

[mrcheerful]

13. Dawn? A wooden stake in the heart? Garlic? Touched with a cross?

After all the R's are blood suckers of the worst kind.

[Cosmocat]

15. Campaign finance ...

cut with the bullcrap that money equates free speech in political donations and univerally disallow the donation to political campaigns by any non-human being ... Only personal checks should be allowed to political campaigns, and I mean no donations from unions, political pacts, other candidates political pacts to candidates as well as companies ...

This would do wonders to clean up our team a good bit, too ...

[bluethruandthru]

24. +1000

[Speck Tater]

16. A major comet striking the earth, or

A super-volcano eruption in Yosemite, or
Runaway global warming like on Venus, or
A nearby supernova, or
... well, the possibilities are endless.

[smalll]

17. It would take a lot. Maybe these three things in combination --

A lesbian sex scandal involving Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann.
A gay sex scandal involving Mitch McConnell and John Boehner.
And the revelation that Dick Cheney is ... a secret Muslim!

If all those three things happened over the span of a few news-cycles, the Republican Party might get semi-annihilated. We'd still probably lose the House this year though. But the Senate would be totally safe!

[awoke_in_2003]

30. The first scenario...

was intriguing, the second one made me vomit.

[mikekohr]

22. Honesty and acknowlegement of their economic record.

They come in a distant second to Democratic economic accomplishment see: http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/eco...
and lay claim to being economic wizards.

They explode the National Debt. see:http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/nat...
and lay claim to being fiscally responsible.

They CRUSH job creation see: http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/job...
and claim to understand how to control the business cycle.

They have been in charge when 9 of the last 10 recession have occurred see: http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com/p/his...
and claim to be experts on the economy

Democrats have the record, the facts and history on our side. Republicans have fear, fubar and falsehood on theirs. When they win, working people lose. And that's how they like it.

mike kohr
Bureau County Democrats
http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. we have to get the message out

it's not getting out

[mikekohr]

41. I've been trying , feel free to copy, past, forward

mike kohr
Bureau County Democrats

[denimgirly]

23. LISTENING to your BASE is all you Need! Democrats rarely do that.

If only democrats listened to their base (which is mostly progressive) they'd control both houses for decades. But it is always, ALWAYS selling out to special interests and appeasing the right that ends up being the undoing of the democratic control.

Listen to your gawdamn base for once.

Want an example....how about the 80%+ demanding a public option only to be nuked by Obama and the rest of the democrats because of selling out to corporate america. And now they are getting killed in the polls and AS EXPECTED the insurers hiked prices before election so as to give republicans a chance to get power. NO SURPISES THERE!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. even so the message doesn't get out via the media

[jberryhill]

27. Education /nt

[golfguru]

28. Health care insurance premiums DROP 35% next year due to HCR

Oh, but wait, premiums are rising 35% instead!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

31. Republicans want to privatize health completely

[golfguru]

32. Rosa Rosa Rosa...Healthcare is already privatized

There is no public option.
There is no single payer.
Every individual under 65 has only ONE choice....private insurance company.
And every one MUST buy PRIVATE insurance or face the wrath of IRS.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

33. not quite - but Repubs want to drain every drop of blood!

[golfguru]

37. Who cares what repubs say, I am talking about HCR bill passed

with all democratic votes and signed by the president.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

43. we know

but without a Dem house and senate next year we won't get ANYTHING. With a huge Dem majority things can progress to a single payer.

[boppers]

36. Medicare and Tri-care were cancelled?

What?

[golfguru]

38. Did you read my post thoroughly?

I specifically stated "for people under 65" which excludes medicare patients.

[boppers]

40. People under 65 are on Medicare and Tri-care.

Try again?

[golfguru]

57. I tried signing up before 65 and they refused! Why?

Are you under 65 and on Medicare? Why was I NOT allowed to
sign up for Medicare before 65?

[boppers]

65. Perhaps you don't qualify yet?

http://www.medicare.gov/MedicareEligibility/home.asp

Are you on SSDI?

[golfguru]

66. Exactly, no one under 65 qualifies

unless you are disabled or something like that.
So back to my original point, I can only sign up
for PRIVATE health insurance.

[boppers]

69. "UNLESS"

That was not your original point. People under 65 can get public health care:
1) If they've served in the armed forces
2) If they're disabled
3) If they worked for the railroads
4) If they're fighting renal disease
(etc.)

In case you need a reminder, you said:
"Every individual under 65 has only ONE choice....private insurance company.
And every one MUST buy PRIVATE insurance or face the wrath of IRS."

This is simply not true. "Many", "Most", and other qualifiers might be true, but "Every" is simply false. Alternately, you could have said "limited choices including" instead of "only ONE choice", and note that the IRS will not fine you for being disabled, and on SSDI and Medicare.

[golfguru]

Railroads are all privately owned except AMTRAK

I am not disabled.
I was aware of the renal disease coverage. I do not qualify.
I am not a Veteran.
Veterans do not qualify for public insurance. My father-in-law
was a Vet, and the only health service he could get was at the
Veteran's hospital. I hope I never end up in a hospital like that.
The service is terrible...slow, bureaucratic, inefficient. He
developed stomach cancer and the doctors at Veteran's hospital never
detected it until 3 weeks before he died when it had spread to every
internal organ near his stomach.

So for me, private insurance it is.

[golfguru]

72. Railroads are all privately owned except AMTRAK

I am not disabled.
I was aware of the renal disease coverage.
Veterans do not qualify for public insurance. My father-in-law
was a Vet, and the only health service he could get was at the
Veteran's hospital. I hope I never end up in a hospital like that.
The service is terrible...slow, bureaucratic, inefficient. He
developed stomach cancer and the doctors at Veteran's hospital never
detected it until 3 weeks before he died when it had spread to every
internal organ near his stomach.

[quakerboy]

34. Truth

Justice. The American way.

or something. Hate and ignorance will lurk in the heart of mankind, as long as there are humans. Republicans will always be with us in some form

[TheKentuckian]

35. A Democratic party that relentlessly pursues the destruction of their failed ideology

as a valid political philosophy.

Instead of sending them to the morgue we lovingly take the fuckers to the hospital and don't spare the horses either.

Think for a moment about how gawdawful and honestly dangerous the Republicans are.
Really consider how out of bounds they are and the historic success levels of their recycled gilded age bullshit and explain how not treating them as such is productive.

Republicans shouldn't be emulated but annihilated as a governing party and that means having the grit to throw them an anchor a day to keep the batshit away.

[Ken Burch]

39. Truth. Courage. Sincere DEFENSE of our party's principles on the part of our leaders.

n/t.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

45. yes

[saltpoint]

42. Their own leadership in recent years sure hasn't been

any help to them.

Mitch McConnell, in particular, has been notably unimpressive.

Among their 2012 presidential aspirants, I'm not seeing anybody with more presence or brains than Barack Obama, and most of them aren't anywhere close.

It doesn't seem to me that your percentages of winning the White House are very good if your entire political mission pointedly excludes huge chunks of the electorate.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

44. if the media vine was cut we wouldn't hear about them

[saltpoint]

46. Hi, Rosa. Yep. But I don't know how to unplug Fox News.

Would if I could, though!

:hi:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

47. there are ways but no one has bothered to

[and-justice-for-all]

49. They are doing a nice job of that themselves...

everytime one of them opens their mouth, stupid falls out.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

52. but the voters obviously don't think that they are stupid

[and-justice-for-all]

71. Do not fall victim to the M$M whoreship of a Puke party takeover..

It is hyperbole and typical for them to pull this shit....

[craigmatic]

50. An educated, well- informed electorate.

[JohnnyBoots]

51. Truth, Justice and a viable 4th Estate. Either

That or a Remington 870 at close range. All good choices.

[lunamagica]

53. Immigration reform passed by the Democrats

Republicans would never recover from millions of new Democratic voters.

That's the REAL reason why they are fighting so hard against reform with a path to legalization (besides wanting to keep the country white).

[slackmaster]

54. Rosa, what would you replace it with once it was annihilated?

Serious question.

Our system is designed to be adversarial at all levels. The GOP, screwy as it is, serves as a check against our party gaining a monopoly on political power. History is full of examples of what happens when any group gains absolute power.

So, what would you replace the present GOP with?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

64. I would hope it would never come back!

I would hope that other parties would evolve naturally from the grass roots and not from corporations so we could have Proportional Representation and a fair voting system!

[COLGATE4]

55. A silver bullet?

[Whisp]

58. a fair and honest media. n/t

[geek tragedy]

60. Smart voters. nt

[theothersnippywshrub]

61. Republicans. Their insatiable lust for hatred ensures that they eventually hate each other.

When that happens the Republican party will splinter. The Scrotal Warming Tea Bagger movement is offering a glimmer of a beginning to this, but it still is probably several years and a few more election cycles away.

[martymar64]

62. A 2010 Republican victory

They are already coughing up blood with the Teas Party splitting establishment republicans against the radical right wing. If they win, the far right will try to claim this as some sort of mandate and will push for endless investigations against democrats, for a virtual shutdown of government or endless gridlock. This will turn against them the way it did in 96 and Obama will win re-election and the voters who were apathetic about voting this year will come out in droves to toss out republicans once and for all.

I see this as basically their final act. They will go the way of the Whigs after 2012. The establishment and moderate republicans will probably be drawn into the democratic party because of its rightward shift over the past several decades. The challenge after 2012 will be for progressives to find a home party because I can only see the democratic party further marginalizing liberals and progressives in order to court former republicans. The democratic party will become the new republican party and anybody to the left of Joe Lieberman will be forced to find a new party.

I hope I'm wrong about the final outcome.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

63. our rights will become no rights (and no economy and no jobs and no social security)

do people think things will get better with a RW government? The RW will cut everything to the bare bone and siphon off what remains of the wealth. I can imagine we will be lining up for soup outside the soup kitchens.

[martymar64]

70. Will things get better? No

I don't think things will ever be "better" for America ever again, no matter who is in power. I think our nation has already passed the tipping point. We are now on the long slide down to third-world status. Within 20 years we'll more closely resemble Mexico than Germany.

Sorry,but I don't think the Democratic Party has the political will to do what it takes to save this country from the destruction that is sure to come.

[Fozzledick]

67. Honest Elections

Tamper resistant physical ballots counted by humans in open view of the public with mandatory unobstructible forensic audits at any sign of fraud.

[lovemydog]

68. peace

and prosperity.

[besdayz]

73. z

enact 1 law.

make hypocrisy a crime punishable by long prison sentences or capital even...would wipe out there ranks quick and would remove the "centrists" on our side too...

[yurbud]

75. decline of homophobia, racism, and zenophobia in general

no hot buttons to push.

[yurbud]

76. the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression should have done it, but..

the Democratic Congress spent so much time asking the GOP for advice and using their ideas even Republicans weren't going to reciprocate with votes, that they didn't make a clear case that the Reagan Revolution and thirty years of conservative policy dominance led to the Great Recession.