"Dems taken over by the extreme left"

[SHRED]

What bullshit.

These idiots don't even know what Liberal is much less understand the only Liberal/Left candidate I can recall, in '04, which was Kucinich.

As the country tries to come to grips with it's dramatic shift to the right, for the past 26 years, the RW'ers start hollering at just baby steps away from the status quo.

[ikojo]

1. Why aren't these same folks screaming

about the pugs being taken over by extremist clerics?

[Vickers]

2. Nixon is too far left for the RW whackos these days.

Hell, even Reagan has been revealed to be a pacifist since the recent Beirut unpleasantness. :eyes:

[zanne]

3. Some extremists are OK.

The extremists on the Right, for example. I don't know why our Dem politicians don't make hay with this. From the very beginning, we all should have been emphasizing the extremist tendencies of the Republican party. "The Radical Right" should be words used by every Democrat.

[Bjorn Against]

16. Make that the EXTREME right

The word radical is often misused, it literally means "to go to the root of the problem". These people ARE the problem, they are not radicals they are extremists.

[katinmn]

4. I think the new meme is "Hard-Left-Wing Internet Activists"

and we're in charge! Embrace their fear and tell the GOP to step aside so that others can lead us out of the MESS they have created.

http://www.gopsenators.com/newsdesk/document.aspx?ID=2806
"What happened in Connecticut's primary clearly demonstrates that the angry left fringe of the Democrat Party is in charge and party leaders have already lined up this morning to support their cause," said NRSC Spokesman Brian Walton. "Does Amy Klobuchar support the wishes of the angry left by endorsing Ned Lamont's candidacy or does she support the man her party picked as their Vice Presidential nominee just two elections ago?"

Lamont's Victory "Signaled The Ascendancy" Of The Hard-Left-Wing Internet Activists. "As much as it was a repudiation of his support for the Iraq War, Joe Lieberman's loss Tuesday in the Senate primary also signaled the ascendancy of a legitimate new power center in the Democratic party, the Netroots. The much-hyped Internet activists of the Howard Dean presidential campaign, liberal blogs like Daily Kos and activist groups like MoveOn.org had generated lots of buzz, but few results at the ballot box until now." (Perry Bacon, "The Unmaking Of A Senator: How Bloggers Staged An Upset," TIME Magazine, August 9, 2006)

[creeksneakers2]

5. Bush is the extremist

We see polls about Bush’s support for his handling of the war in Iraq. We don’t see polls about Bush’s strategy for his “war on terror.”

Bush’s strategy is to replace every government in the Middle East with a democracy. Bush is willing,if necessary,to prosecute consecutive wars for decades to accomplish that goal.

Bush ignores that the cost in lives and money to do that would be far worse than anything terrorists could do to us if we left the doors wide open. Bush ignores the terrorism that his wars would spawn. All this because Bush believes that after 100 years the future residents of the Middle East will no longer want to attack us because they’ll be so greatful for the democracy they got after America bombed their theocracy loving great-grandparents. Then, according to Bush, America will win the “war on terrorism.”

I’d like to see a poll on support for Bush’s approach to his “war on terrorism.” We could see which side represented the “extremists.”

[w4rma]

11. Better put "democracy" in quotes, since Lebanon is a democracy.

And it is the only other democracy in the middle east besides Israel.

[salin]

6. of course that gives NO explanation for the 2 other incumbents who lost

their primary bids on the same day.

[bronxiteforever]

7. Yes everyday Dems' fight a propaganda machine-its smears

but won't discuss ideas.
Do you hear MSM discuss the fraudulent spending of money in Iraq? Shrub has been given a pass.Just one example.
The problem of our domestic and foreign policy is that the radical right wing has control over all the levers of government and they are crushing the average citizen. Radical has been the war on a country that didn't attack us and had no ties to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Am I radical in that I want my fellow countrymen and women to receive a living wage, the benefits of science and the ability to pursue happiness whether gay or straight,poor or rich, hispanic, native american African american or white?

If so I am. But rather the fact that these beliefs are considered extreme shows how little the federal government "promotes the general welfare"

[acmejack]

8. Well damn the bad luck (for them)!

Why doesn't someone just jump up and tell me what it is that the so called "extreme left" espouses that is so terrible? National Health Care? Election & Campaign Reform? Radical ideas such as these? OMG, they'll destroy the US of A!

[ktlyon]

9. really I didn't know there were Stalinists and Communists in the

Democratic Party, I thought they had their own parties. Sure don't hear much from them.
:bounce:

[unblock]

10. "the country" has NOT shifted to the left

only the institutions of power that have shifted. the country only seems more right-wing because the left can't get a fair shake in the press, and our politicians, largely because of this, don't represent us as well as they might.

restore the fairness doctrine and break up a few of the media conglomerates and you'll start hearing the real america again.

[DFW]

12. Nor have we

"....shifted to the left."

Not wanting an oppressive militarist theocracy is not exactly synonymous
with shifting to the left.

What about Rep. Schwarz (R-MI) losing his re-election bid to an extreme
rightist in his primary in Michigan the same day Lieberman lost his bid
for his party's nomination? By their own definition, the Republicans have
just been taken over by the radical right, and have no room left for voices of
moderation within their own party.

(Well, OK, that happened long ago, but y'all get my drift)

[Poppyseedman]

13. You are half right

The democratic party is being influenced by the far left net organizations, not taken over by them.

There is a philosophical political difference between organizations like the DLC, PPI and organizations like "The Open Society Institute" and Moveon.org

[blue sky at night]

14. anyone who opposes death and destruction........

is an extreme leftist to these folks. To judge others simply means you are a person that judges and has utterly no effect or meaning anywhere else.

[Mz Pip]

15. What a leap in logic

An anti-war candidate wins a primary in a an upper-middle class state and the RW leap frog over all the issues and create that nonsense.

I am waiting for some liberal pundit to laugh in the face of the next RWer who says this on TV.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[NoodleBoy]

17. next time a Republican says that, ask them about the

"Conservative triumph" over the "liberal" wing of the Republican party in the 1980's.

Seriously, nothing makes them puff their chest up like talking about their glorious defeat of people who thought differently than them, then their ongoing campaign for ideological purity in their party.

[alvarezadams]

18. ROFLOL!

I don't think that the most "extreme left" of the DNC is nearly as "left" as the center of FDR's New Deal was.

That's just rw framing.