Let's have a purity purge of the Democratic Party!

[jpgray]

Do you support a noble, pure, incorruptible party? Don't want to vote for a pale shivering centrist of a Democrat? Me too! Let's use Sheehan's potential method of running against those vile Dems as an independent candidate. First step is to hash out a few unimportant and trivial preliminaries:

1. List all criteria by which we will purge, and please make sure all of it agrees in every aspect with everyone else's purity criteria. We all agree on every issue, no? Of course! Now, how many pure representatives will that leave us with? Remember a pure candidate can't -ever- sell out even an inch on the war, gay/labor rights, corporate regulation, abortion, guns (uh, which we will agree on I'm sure), etc. Almost no deviance is to be tolerated--even a single vote selling out our values is unjustifiable, isn't it? So we have our work cut out for us.

2. How will we guarantee representatives targeted by the purge are replaced by our pure candidates? Please include our methods to ensure we can find such an opposing candidate in every district/state who agrees with all our very disparate values in all aspects. Also please include your methods that ensure a split progressive vote doesn't help to elect a right wing majority, though we will be comforted by not having collaborated as they ruin our country at a far greater pace.

3. Be ready to explain to Democratic voters why the party which failed to stop an imperialist war or impeach a corrupt, dangerous maniac of a president is more worthy of our attacks than the party which wholly supported/initiated the imperialist war and contains said president.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Let's have loyalty oaths! Blacklists!

Are you now or have you ever considered for voting on policy instead of party?

[jpgray]

3. Because clearly our options can only exist as binary extremes!

[BlooInBloo]

6. Up with binary idiocy!

[jpgray]

9. No progressive opposition in primaries! DLC corporatist traitors or snow-pure progressive heroes!

[BlooInBloo]

23. Either love freedom & support impeachment or you're a Nazi-sympathizer!

[jpgray]

25. Our party's leadership is drunk at the wheel, and the CONSTITUTION is riding shotgun!

[BlooInBloo]

29. Tastes Great!

[jpgray]

33. Less shilling!

[JeffR]

2. .

:popcorn:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. More popcorn?

Geez, I have been crappin' like a combine on nitromethane all day, thanks to yesterday's fun 'n frolic.

[Donnachaidh]

is that the human version of biofuels?

"crappin like a combine" :rofl: :rofl:

[zabet]

13. Whoa!!!

I have seen a combine crap corn! :rofl:

[deadmessengers]

26. Popcorn? HOW DARE YOU

Obviously you have absolutely no idea of the environmental impact of growing corn so that selfish corporatist DLC right wing bastards such as yourself can sit there on your ivory tower bla blah blah blah rant rant.

:rofl:

[Gman]

44. Me too!

:popcorn:

[Donnachaidh]

4. Hey -- advocate ANOTHER circular firing squad!

Yeah!

Taking pointers from the Repukes? Let's call all the people who disagree with us NON-Democrats! Yeah -- THAT will work. :rofl:

[quinnox]

7. wow Du has been flaming lately

Here is more fuel for the fire.

[ulysses]

8. better yet, let's just accept the party as it is!

:party:

[jpgray]

14. All or nothing! The only options!

[ulysses]

30. at the end of the day, though, one thing *is* binary.

Either you act, or you don't.

[EFerrari]

35. What about slouching?

:rofl:

[ulysses]

37. inaction.

Bodies at rest tend to stay at rest. :D

[jpgray]

39. Failing to oppose is frothing to support! Collaboration and initiaton--two different meanings WHY!?

[NoPasaran]

38. I demand all AND nothing!

If you'll settle for all or nothing you'd settle for anything! Or everything!

[jpgray]

40. omg. metapurity.

[monktonman]

10. To answer question number three

I didnt vote for the other guys.
I voted for DEMS
and they gave the "dangerous maniac of a president" a blank check to run his war.(period)

The republics are doing exactly what I thought they would do.
What about the guys I voted for? not so much.

[Chulanowa]

11. Wonder how many people it will take...

Before someone realizes the :sarcasm: ...

[Old and In the Way]

12. I kinda like the idea of putting the fire out, first.

Before trying to rebuild the structure.

[BuyingThyme]

15. Yeah, why doesn't anybody have any problem with the Republicans?

Good point! Spot on!

Why waste time with my own party? You've opened my eyes!

[jpgray]

16. Yes! A split progressive vote could never help Republicans!

[BuyingThyme]

20. But Nancy Pelosi sure can.

[jpgray]

22. All evil or all good! That's our motto!

[BuyingThyme]

24. I think your motto is, "Forgive the horrible failure who took the Constitution off the table and

wrote a blank check to fund an illegal oil war. Then apply the word purge to those who object to the insanity."

It's got a ring to it, but you should shorten it up a little.

[jpgray]

27. Two poles! Nothing inbetween! Accepting good and bad points from each camp shall not be tolerated!

[NaturalHigh]

17. No, a purge isn't necessary...

but neither is the demand that we vote for the (D) whether we can stomach him/her or not. Despite my disagreements with the Democratic party, I'm still a lifelong Democrat. That doesn't mean that I have to vote for a particular Dem nominee against my wishes, though. It's still my vote, not the party's.

[jpgray]

18. Your sanity has no place here

[NaturalHigh]

19. I was wondering why I wasn't...

"feeling the love."

[jpgray]

21. :-D

[BlooInBloo]

28. self-delete

[LittleClarkie]

31. 4. Be ready to explain that you are not being Stalinist

it only seems that way.

[jpgray]

32. Not that we are wholly unaccepting of offensive historical metaphors, you Vichy Dems!

[markk]

34. Or how about call it was it is..

a primary election.. You can support one person in the primary and another in the general. Theres no harm in having different ideas exposed to voters in a primary, instead of accepting choice A or B and having to live with whatever you get stuck with. But if you wanna make it out to be something its not go ahead.

[jpgray]

42. Primaries are the work of Satan, in whom I don't believe

[OzarkDem]

36. 2008 is a long way off, we need leadership now

We need to wake up our party leaders and get them to start getting things done. No more excuses, go back to the drawing board and come up with a strategy to get something substantive done now.

Dem leaders need to make a list of vulnerable GOP members and start twisting arms and putting pressure on now.
There's ample evidence GOPers are feeling big pressure from voters. Now is the time to act and get what's needed now.

[jpgray]

41. Sanity burns us. Don't let on that it burns DLC Democrats as well

[Initech]

43. Didn't Free Republic do the same thing already?

Wouldn't we be no better than them if we had the same type of purge (i.e. anyone who doesn't toe the wingnut line exactly should be tarred and feathered?).

[BlooInBloo]

45. I was wondering yesterday if there'd be a Sheehan-purge, a la freeperville's Giuliani.

[jpgray]

46. One purge vs. another, it is inevitable. No reconcilement shall occur. Our purge shall prevail!

[BlooInBloo]

47. And throughout it all, we shall be assailed by The Judges, throwing Rules at us. Forthwith.

[jpgray]

48. The thread shall die, but my credo lives: by mutual exclusivity and contempt the Left will thrive!

[Odin2005]

49. I belong to no organized party, I am a Democrat.

O8)

[jpgray]

50. You are either a DLC stooge or support a progressive purge. Loyalty oath or anarchy! Nothing else!