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In reply to the discussion: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-Cortez is Terrifying Fox News [View all]Squinch
(50,773 posts)68. If all Democrats sounded the same on these issues, we would never have just had a blue wave.
Why do some people absolutely refuse to see this?
I am sick to death of the stupidity of some people who insist that all Democrats must tailor their message to them personally, rather than tailoring their message to the voters in their own districts who will actually vote for them.
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This is how I see it, too. She needs to calm down and start playing on the team...
libdem4life
Nov 2018
#5
Fox was most important in promoting AOC out of obscurity. Keys were villainous
empedocles
Nov 2018
#8
same here...new pups need to sit, stay and learn..getting elected to this position only...
samnsara
Nov 2018
#129
What I find intriguing is that every AOC thread, there are long, long number of posts.
libdem4life
Nov 2018
#143
That is what they are doing, and it does prove what some have said all along, if Nancy
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2018
#62
Could be...My only concern ever is control of the government so nazis arent in control
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2018
#65
Yet she worked her ass off to win. So she earned her right to decide how she should act. nt
USALiberal
Nov 2018
#59
IMHO, AOC needs to BE WHO SHE IS. That's what got her here. Leave the cookie cutter mentality to the
BamaRefugee
Nov 2018
#20
some argument, or cited evidence would be helpful to your case...but if you just want to fume,
JCanete
Nov 2018
#23
If all democrats sounded the same on these issues then Sanders would not have been interesting
JCanete
Nov 2018
#30
I'll help you out, and sorry. I should take a second before I just get irritated and post.
JCanete
Nov 2018
#40
There are only three posts in thread that mentioned Sanders, #30 (yours), #34 in response to #30...
George II
Nov 2018
#63
Great....yeah, now. Somebody alerted on post#21, that I responded to and now its gone. I wish
JCanete
Nov 2018
#64
silly as fuck. Which one do you think most matters to my Sanders mention, which was the
JCanete
Nov 2018
#89
It wasn't when the conversation was going. It still wasn't when I responded a second time to point
JCanete
Nov 2018
#91
what I said was relevant to what we were talking about. Sorry it bothered you. I'm not
JCanete
Nov 2018
#60
I'm not going to bother having a conversation with you about what I should or should not talk about.
JCanete
Nov 2018
#107
"I guess you don't remember all of the unicorn comments out of the mouths of DUers"
emulatorloo
Nov 2018
#108
so you are saying if somebody makes a claim about how things are and have always been,
JCanete
Nov 2018
#109
I'm not tying her to the past. I'm talking about us, and since we need a level of intelectual
JCanete
Nov 2018
#112
Yes money out of politics. All Dems and DU'ers I know want Citizens United gone.
emulatorloo
Nov 2018
#119
If all Democrats sounded the same on these issues, we would never have just had a blue wave.
Squinch
Nov 2018
#68
I don't insist on that. That's what primaries are for. Determining what a district or state, etc.
JCanete
Nov 2018
#71
I will turn your "strawmanning" warning back on you. There have always been options. As you say,
Squinch
Nov 2018
#74
I'm saying that there's nothing wrong with politicians exerting/testing their influence,
JCanete
Nov 2018
#81
We've had primaries before those two and we will have primaries after them. I just don't recall....
George II
Nov 2018
#88
it was in a certain context that you can't see now...and it was admittedly goading a bit because
JCanete
Nov 2018
#82
It was in bad faith. And this is at least the second time just in this thread in which you
Squinch
Nov 2018
#86
oh cool...glad you didn't say anything obnoxious yourself. I'll certainlly take your
JCanete
Nov 2018
#87
You've hit the "I know you are but what am I?" phase. Maybe it's time for you to walk away.
Squinch
Nov 2018
#92
No, I've copped to being harsh and even strawmanning where you called me on it, and agreed
JCanete
Nov 2018
#94
I think your suggestion might be true, or partly at least. They may think that she's
JCanete
Nov 2018
#104
If they can pull off either, sure...but the difference between Cortez and Clinton and Pelosi, is
JCanete
Nov 2018
#141