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In reply to the discussion: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-Cortez is Terrifying Fox News [View all]R B Garr
(16,950 posts)98. Yes, Fox loves her. She is making it easy for them. nt
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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