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MaggieD

(7,393 posts)
Sat May 9, 2015, 01:55 PM May 2015

How about you take your cue from Sanders

Who has never run a negative ad in his life? Oh the irony of his supporters here. They spend day in and day out tearing up Dem candidates on behalf of a guy who has never run a negative ad in his life. And no matter how much evidence we have that that sort of thing depresses turn out for democrats, the purists just keep at it.

What is a purist? Some one who never found a candidate in their own party they couldn't bash. Remember when Obama was the demigod of choice here? I do. But he hadn't been in office one year when the purists started trashing him here.

Hell, there are posts in this thread going on right now where posters are claiming Carter was not liberal enough. Some people live in la la land when it comes to politics.

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