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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 01:59 PM Original message |
68% of Democratic voters prefer compromise over principle? |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. Political Animal Instincts are wrong. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. The actual polling seems to prove your faith-based assumption to be wrong. nt |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. This just proves the brainwashing is working. n/t |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
3. Because Democrats understand that sitting back and letting the world burn is not an option. |
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young but wise (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. +1000 |
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Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Exactly. Compromise is how things get done in all aspects of life. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 07:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
24. Did the colonists compromise with the British? |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 07:51 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. The vast majority of them did, actually. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 07:55 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. The winning side did not, actually. |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 07:55 AM Response to Reply #24 |
35. The ones that didn't did great things for white landowning males. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Whatever that means. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. No, the repugs care very much about their interests, and they win |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 07:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. They really aren't smart enough to care about their interests, otherwise they'd be for regulation... |
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Palmer Eldritch (369 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. You are correct, sir. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 03:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. oh- hell |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
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Bobbie Jo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 04:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. Exactly. nt |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 07:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. Yep, they're neofacists wanting to completely destroy everything. |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 09:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
31. Oh, you nailed it. |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:31 PM Original message |
Its a naturally liberal thing to be willing to compromise. Compromise is form of open mindedness. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
12. that's something I hadn't thought about. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. THis explains why Dems so often lose and repukes win. |
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CrazyBob (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
10. Totally wrong. Totally |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
13. The point isn't that principles are good and compromise is bad. |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
14. That should read 68% prefer compromise over ideology. We're not teabaggers. |
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CakeGrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 04:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Great point. |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 05:23 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. I blame the blogosphere. Their bread & butter depends on divisive rhetoric & |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:40 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. I often think of Clinton and the Welfare Reform issue |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 08:08 AM Response to Reply #14 |
36. Results over ideology |
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vroomvroom (496 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
17. It's really quite Sad...Democrats, even as voters, are not Fighters. And this is why we lose. |
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CrazyBob (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 04:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Dont fall for it |
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vroomvroom (496 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
18. Stockholm Syndrome. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 04:57 PM Response to Reply #18 |
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whosinpower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
22. And that is why the republicans will always get their way nt |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 09:12 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Yes, they are really happy with HCR, Wall Street reform, credit card reform, the stimulus plan, etc. |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
30. Yes, because MOST Democrats are grown-ups, not whiny babies having tantrums like MOST Republicans. |
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center rising (446 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
33. I would like to reach some type of compromise |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
34. "Compromising" with a dangerous and failed ideology is suicidal. |
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