FLAprogressive
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:37 PM
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Regardless of how the election goes, the DLC will spin it as a message to go "centrist" |
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They'll either say that Coakley is a "centrist" and that's who the voters want (if she wins) or that she was "too liberal" and say that voters want "centrist" (right-wing) candidates if she loses.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:38 PM
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1. Joe Lieberman's already mouthing the "we were too liberal" side. n/t |
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:40 PM
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3. So is Evan "my wife is an insurance whore" Bayh. |
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Clearly the DLC has already put out the talking points. I expect Harold Ford will be on TV talking the same shit within minutes. It's one occasion that I'm actually happy I don't have cable TV anymore.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:44 PM
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7. It can't be that Coakley ran a crappy campaign. |
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From 30 points up to where she is now (not going to call the race just yet since I have no way to know), yeah, sure, it was all about the liberal Democrats in Congress... NOT.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:50 PM
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13. IMHO, proof this was orchestrated to be a loss. The DLC takeover is complete. |
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Hell, even Obama called Single Payer "too radical".
WTF???
*sigh*
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:48 PM
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"what do you mean 'we', Senator Palatine?"
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:39 PM
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2. I am feeling sick to my stomach........ |
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:40 PM
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4. Change we can believe in - the left gets fucked again. nt |
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:41 PM
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5. How else do you read it? |
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Teddy's seat becomes a Republican Conservative seat held by a man who opposes everything Teddy ever stood for. Seems to me, all the voters of Mass. said, stop this train and progress to the far right. Give us big banks. Send the poor to die without health care. Global warming is a myth and nothing needs done.
That is the message, and liberal/progressive Massachusetts sends it with love if Coakley wins.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:42 PM
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6. Lieberman, Evan Bayh, and Chris Matthews have all said the same |
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thing tonight already. Obama went too far left. Coakley was too far left. Ya think it might be someone's talking point or something.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:44 PM
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8. And the flips side is true, too. |
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The far left will say she was backed by the DLC (if she wins) or that she is the victim of Obama not being far left enough.
Wow! Spin in politics?
Imagine that!
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:47 PM
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10. You forgot that the left is 'immaterial'. Nt |
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:54 PM
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14. Based on the results that I see so far |
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they are more than that.
They love pissing in the wind.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:49 PM
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12. It's a far more logical argument, especially considering whose seat it is. |
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This is a LIBERAL Senate seat. Teddy was there 46 years, his brother Jack before him. Over half a century of LIBERAL Democratic representation in the senate. The seat would be taking a hard right turn with either candidate, unfortunately.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:44 PM
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9. It Certainly has me Bummed |
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It was the move to the center that has cost us. Electing republicans calling themselves Democrats does us no good.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:59 PM
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15. GOP is leading the DEMs into a rout for 2010 |
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Tue Jan-19-10 09:09 PM
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:59 PM
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16. Who the fuck cares what the DLC says? |
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Tue Jan-19-10 09:06 PM
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18. they control the party |
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Tue Jan-19-10 09:13 PM
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20. That doesn't mean their opinon isn't worthless shit. |
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Hell, even shit is more useful, it can be used as fertilizer.
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Tue Jan-19-10 09:00 PM
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Tue Jan-19-10 09:43 PM
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21. And they will be wrong as usual. |
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The DLC is like an infected appendix. It has to go, or we will die from the infection.
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