Who is the bigger threat to the Democratic Party?

[Behind the Aegis]

There have been many attacks on Democrats as of recent. So, I started thinking about the "attackers." Who is really our biggest threat?

on edit: please give a few kicks now and again. :)

[Greyhound]

1. What's a DINO?

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Democrat in Name Only.

welcome! :hi:

[Meeker Morgan]

3. Examples of DINOs

Zell Miller
Joe Lieberman
Ed Koch

'nuff said?

[Behind the Aegis]

4. kick.

[jonnyblitz]

5. DINOS. nt

[nickshepDEM]

6. Other, The ULTRA left. eom

[Behind the Aegis]

7. out of curiosity

What/who would be an example of the "ultra" left?

[LittleClarkie]

8. And would they count if they're not actually IN the party?

The Ultra Left to me is the sort of person who only just barely found Dennis Kucinich a tolerable candidate and who thinks the rest of the Dem Party is no different than the Republicans. When you're standing that far to the left, everything looks like a Republican.

Publications like CounterPunch give me that feeling.

Lefty Freepers is another description. Detached from reality is never good, on the left or the right.

[Behind the Aegis]

10. agreement

I agree with you about CounterPunch...that is a creepy site!

[GoneOffShore]

11. As a subscriber to The Nation

and a reader of CounterPunch I think characterizing the site as a 'creepy site' is off the mark.
Alexander Cockburn has made more than a few good points about the terrorism that the US has fomented around the world

[Behind the Aegis]

13. It is my opinion...

...and I am sticking to it! I am not saying EVREYTHING there is useless, but I don't like the tone of many of the articles. And, to me, it is creepy.

[nickshepDEM]

9. My definition of the Ultra Left would be...

The bleeding heart, flag burning, anti-god, race/sex baiting, America is responsible for everything wrong in the world types.

[eridani]

14. Those particular ultralefties were rooting for Bush

---on the grounds that this country needs to be taken down, and that Bush would do it soomer.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Are you serious?

Are there really people like that on the left? Maybe I am naive (at 36, I wouldn't think so, but...)? Are there really people that would vote for that POS just to punish all of us?! I just find that flabbergasting. Or were you just joshing?

[eridani]

16. I'm being perfectly serious.

Not a lot of them, and they are way more disorganized than Dems or even Greens. I live in an urban area on the left coast, where people leaflet Kucinich rallies with flyers explaining how his campaign is a dirty trick to subvert real revolutionaries by getting them to join the corrupt Dems.

And the urge is not so much punishment as it is "it really will be better for us in the long run to suffer now instead of suffer even more later."

[Behind the Aegis]

18. Shocked!

Thank you for your response. I am just...my mouth is hanging open...how could anyone think they are progressive and justify group suffering?

Well, the adage is true..."you learn something new everyday!" I just wish this wasn't something I had to learn. But, I am thankful that someone took the time to teach me.

[cire4]

17. The ultra left has no power....How could they possibly be a threat?

[nickshepDEM]

22. The media trys to put the entire party in the same corner as

the ultra-left.

[K-W]

12. Corporations and the Plutocrats who control them.

Without them pushing the republicans into power and the democrats totally off any actual populism the Democratic party might actually be democratic.

[Piperay]

19. Democrats are their own worst enemy

because they have no balls! :mad:

[LightningFlash]

20. Definitely all of the above, Dinos first and foremost.

[ngGale]

21. All combined together...

it takes a village, remember? :eyes: