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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 01:58 PM Original message |
Democratic Politicians should be made to attend Boot Camp, with Bernie Sanders as the Drill Sergent |
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avebury (455 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. K&R |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. Bernie's speeches during the filibuster last December |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 02:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. +1 to your reply. You hit the nail on the head yourself |
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Sportsguy (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-11 04:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
46. There Was A Book Made |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-11 07:31 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. Thank you for posting this! |
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Sportsguy (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-19-11 12:29 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. You're Very Welcome. Here It Is: |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. But Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat.. If you love and appreciate |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 02:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I wish the whiole Democratic Party was as good at balancing passion with pragmatism as he is |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 03:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Yes, |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. You're right. I think of him as more of a resource. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-14-11 10:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Bernie also knows how to win elections |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 12:24 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. As do Dennis Kucinich (if he can avoid being redistrictred), Marcy Kaptur, |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Yep. But some people always find excuses to dismiss Bernie's success as liker "It's Vermont." |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 06:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
42. He is not a democrat in name... |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 04:36 AM Response to Original message |
10. My rep, who replaced Bernie in the House, has no need to attend Bernie boot Camp |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 02:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Duh...TRhis is a message board. No one should expect theirpersonal ideas to become real here |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
11. Sounds like a bad 80s movie starring Danny Devito as Bernie Sanders. |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
12. Mostly because so many on our side of the aisle are wealthy |
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AzDar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
15. ...Bernie |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
16. Our Centrist party might be for it if a fellow centrist like Lieberman was the driller. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 04:39 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. What? |
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Avant Guardian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. I have seen 'centrists' here touting a combination of supply side and fiscal responsibility |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 06:09 PM Response to Reply #17 |
43. The only thing that matters to some is winning... |
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Avant Guardian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:36 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Nothing like coherence |
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xphile (565 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. You seem to be having a bit of trouble with revisionist history there. |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
18. If you want to be part of a small fringe party, follow Bernie Sanders. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 07:53 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Yeah. He's so fringe that he won 65 percent in his Senate race |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:39 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. 65 percent in Vermont.... |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 09:20 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Bernie will get the Democratic Party member vote. He won't get independents. He won't win. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 05:33 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. What are you talking about. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. Vermont is not Mars...And SanderS addresses what you are talking about |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 09:20 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Nobody's running down Vermont or Sanders or minorities here. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 12:20 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. When you said thinking he could win wider is "delusional" sounded like running it down |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:41 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. I don't think you actually read my post. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 05:23 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Well, delusional is a hot-button word |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 06:12 PM Response to Reply #18 |
44. yeah, because winning elections... |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
20. Senator Sanders is great |
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NorthCarolina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
21. Because the DLC turned the Democratic Party into GOP-Lite... |
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Avant Guardian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. The Democratic party was GOP lite when Bush was president |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 09:21 AM Response to Reply #21 |
27. The DLC did not change the Democratic Party. It represented the centrist part of the party |
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NorthCarolina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 10:10 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. It pulled the party to the right, and instilled a mentality that desires the base to vote |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 10:13 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. "Instilled a mentality... to vote and then disappear"? |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 05:35 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Depends on how you define "centrist" |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 04:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
39. They "figured out" that they could collect money from the corporations, just like the republicans! |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
34. Yup....Fall IN...... |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
36. Bernie: "You know what makes me sad? YOU DO!!!" |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
45. kick.. |
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