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We need to run a primary against the leadership (4.00 / 3)

Leadership be damned.  Torture approving beltway insiders describes all of them.

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by: jello5929 @ Tue Apr 28, 2009 at 13:20:35 PM CDT

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Good Luck with that! (0.00 / 0)

I have personal experience running against the Democratic leadership and you would be surprised how quickly you run out of friends.

The problem is that journalists, bloggers, consultants and anyone with political ambition quickly jump ship.  Money from everywhere dries up except the small donor base of true believers.

They jump ship because they know it is not in their personal interest to push this too far.

On that note I saw the Accountability Now Pac and I wonder about them.  Can you imagine if you could corral all the small dollar donors into races they could never win like Geoghan in IL-05 and keep them out races like Carol Shea Porter 's in 2006 where they might make a difference?  What a service to the leadership that would be.
I don't know that is their plan but I am very suspicious none the less.  I guess I am just cynical in my old age.

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by: Gibson @ Tue Apr 28, 2009 at 16:46:10 PM CDT

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