The biggest drawback to becoming a Conservative Democrat (4.00 / 7)

that I can see, anyway, is doesn't that mean you have to hang out with other Conservative Democrats?

Ugh.

Montani semper liberi

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by: Sadie Baker @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 14:56:09 PM CDT

no, it's OK (4.00 / 2)

you can be an iconoclast.

not everything worth doing is profitable. not everything profitable is worth doing.

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by: tatere @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 16:04:48 PM CDT

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Chris hang out with those pussies? (0.00 / 0)

I think we'd all take up a collection to have him euthanized before we'd ever let that happen.

Nationalism is not the same thing as terrorism, and an adversary is not the same thing as an enemy.

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by: worldlymother @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 21:42:10 PM CDT

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Great point! (4.00 / 6)

I am also now a conservative Democrat!  Furthermore, I accept paypal!

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by: TValley @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 16:48:03 PM CDT

Gee, Chris, you're late to figure this out! (0.00 / 0)

A bunch of the smarter Repugs have been masquerading for yours--Ben Nelson, for example!

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by: Doc Rock @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 18:46:21 PM CDT

Does this mean we get to primary them from the right now? (4.00 / 1)

I'm looking forward to turfing Michael Bennet out of office on the grounds that his opposition to EFCA renders him too much of a McGovernite hippie.

Forgotten Countries - a foreign policy-focused blog

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by: Englishlefty @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 20:36:35 PM CDT

ha! (4.00 / 4)

funny...and sad at the same time.

That said, new infrastructure is being built to fix this...

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by: AdamGreen @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 22:52:56 PM CDT

what new infrastructure? (0.00 / 0)

     Please elaborate.
    Bowers' comments are in the category of "sad but true". My follow-up question is "how do we fix this?"
    So, if you and/or Chris can explain how to fix this, I will do what I can to help.

1 Corinthians 13:1 (KJV) - "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."/ GOP = Greedy Old Privatizers or Greedy Old Privateers?

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by: Christian_Dem_NY @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 07:01:47 AM CDT

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it's always more profitable to sell out (0.00 / 0)

than to do something constructive. No surprise that the Democrats who sell out are making out so much better than those who don't.

I say go for it! You'll get a nicer office and the doorman at your plush Washington hotel will smile and fawn and rush to open the door instead of frowning and holding his hand out for a bigger tip. Just try it!

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by: limpidglass @ Tue Jun 23, 2009 at 03:32:18 AM CDT

The initial goal: (4.00 / 1)

"[...] several years of trying to "retake" the Democratic Party and make it more progressive [....]"

... was pretty much doomed when the Netroots failed to generate a 360 degree s*** storm every time BHO ran Harry and Louise. All of the kabuki theater since and for the duration is now fate. The magnitude of the Joe problem is merely an artifact of the bipartisan BS many so-called progressives bought into a year and a half ago.

Adoption of the marketing campaign to put the partisan conflicts of the '90s behind us was a willful decision to screw the members of our society who have to be defended in order to do, what? Fell good about voting for a cool frat boy with few discernible policies or principles?

Lieberman, like the public option debate is a deception from the reality that voters are not part of this inside game, and that the insiders have one of their guys at the helm.

I have to ask, a year and a half ago, when Goldman Sachs and the rest of Wall Street picked a kid from out of town over either of the major NY candidates, why didn't we sound the klaxons and chase corruption's candidate back to Chicago?

Heckofajob, Netroots.

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by: Pacific John @ Tue Jun 23, 2009 at 12:55:41 PM CDT

I'm happier being a Progressive. (0.00 / 0)

At least I can look at myself in the mirror and get a better night's sleep.

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by: Michael Kwiatkowski @ Wed Jun 24, 2009 at 07:57:15 AM CDT