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@Kitt
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]And that's why the dirty f'ing hippies won the last election?
Speaking of other planets, which one are you referring to?
On this planet, the American election of 2006 elected a plethora of moderates, and no hippies that I saw. Maybe i missed the "communal living, pot-smoking, socialist, free-love" candidate. Feel free to point the hippie who won out to me.
In fact, even that douche-bag Lieberman managed to hold his seat, by a fairly large margin, because the hippies on some left fringe blogs totally miscalculated on Lamont. I remeber when they were all saying what a shoo-in Lamont was, and how he had the "momentum." Sure, until he ran into a voter demographic brick wall the fringe bloggers never saw coming.
Now Leiberman is not just a DINO, but a DINO with a huge grudge and a swing vote in a tied congress, making things even worse than before.
Good-fucking-job left-fringe bloggers and assorted NedHeads. I can't imagine why anyone might think you all need a reality check.
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@L.W.M.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me know when you have anything substantial to say.
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@ L.W.M
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"trolls are fascinating"
You certainly are a troll, having said nothing substantial in the thread so far.
Interesting? No.
FYI, you're completely predictable. You'll carry on trolling one liners, because you need the attention. You don't have anything substantive to contribute, or know or even care much about the topic, and will eventually blow away to the next thread to troll, where you again will have nothing substantive to say.
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@casual_observer
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wellstone was the closest thing the senate had, and still has, to liberal fringe.
True he was closest, but he wasn't actually anywhere near the left political fringe. And he couldn't get elected anywhere else. As you admit he even voted for the defense of marriage act. (do a reality check already)
Kucinich is perhaps in second place, being on the far left of the Senate spectrum, but again he's actually really far in policy from the political left fringe, and even still is too far left to get elected anywhere else.
I quite like both, and wish we had more of them. Waxman is another personal favorite.
But people on the left fringe, who expect to see lots of candidates like them, and even to the left of them, are just delusional idiots, and as such tend to sabotage the left with bad strategy and unrealistic expectations. Take the Naderites for example, what a bunch of fuckups, following a senile man who doesn't realize it's not 1965 anymore and his mandate has withered considerably in the intervening decades, in no small part due to the lack of organizational discipline of leaders like him who allowed the left to be associated with hippies.
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@casual_observer
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]btw, Wellstone had to vote for the defense of marriage act in a close election. Had he not, he probably would have lost his office to be replaced with someone to his right, and would have symbolically been a huge defeat for the left as well.
So, it was a calculated retreat, and all considered, the lesser of evils by far.
That he pissed off the LGBT community for the vote, and that they would prefer he lose his office, only shows how impractical and frivilous that movement is, with wholly unrealistic goals that aren't going to win them any allies. Which is too bad, because if they wised up could be making ground much more quickly on civil unions, which is as good as it's going to get for a long time. As it's going, the LGBT community stands to get huge blowback, Nader scale blowback, from the left if they keep screwing up.
The LGBT community's motto should be "we'll support you right out of office!"
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@Jan Lewis
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lieberman was always going to win in Connecticut. ... And Lamont, by the way, is no hippie. He's a rich businessman
Right, that Lieberman was going to win was seen by most of the MSM, the DNC, the DLC, moderate left bloggers, and just about everybody besides the fringe blogger goofs.
Not that I agree with the MSM and Dems on a lot of things, but the fringe automatically assumed they were wrong on everything, which is just stupid.
Notice for example that Josh Marshall and other left-realistic bloggers were always very dubious about that race, and wisely so.
I had repeated debates on Lamont's chances with Armando at Kos, who continually insisted Lamont had the momentum and was a "shoo-in." I kept telling him Lamont was about to hit a voter demographic wall, and even after he hit it and the polls showed he was stopped dead, Armando kept insisting he had the momentum, and his loyal zombie fans would just echo him. What a fucking clown that guy was, and he was one of the most popular posters on DKos.
The kos-kids for example were all positively screaming that Lamont was a shoo-in, and to say otherwise was treasonous. What a bunch of dumb kids. Well meaning, but seriously needing a clue.
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@lurker10k
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, I type fast. And I've stopped to take pisses, as well as get some work done. But thanks for your concern.
When you have anything substantial to say, let me know.