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Offline LC EFA

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Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« on: February 02, 2009, 03:52:16 AM »
Wishful Thinkingâ„¢ a game the whole herd can play.

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alwysdrunk  Donating Member  (774 posts) Fri Jan-30-09 04:05 PM
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Would you rather see the GOP totally implode or make a shift to the left?
   
This whole Dawson possibly winning the party chair rally has me thinking. It's fun to root against your rival, but then again there are other considerations. Dawson becoming chair would be a disaster for the GOP.

Thing is, this is a two party system. The one good thing a two party system provides is stability. It cuts down on the politics, no need to worry about forming coalition governments and things like that. The last time we had more than two real parties the union split in half. I think it's in the best interest of american people to have two functioning major parties.

I had assumed Steele would win all along. That over the next two years or so people like Rush Limbaugh will start to lose their influence and the mistakes of the Bush years would start to be recognized. No more "with us or with the terrorists", no more denying global warming. Basically, the start of a slow but steady shift to the left. This past week, that's not looking like that is what's going on.

I'm really undecided on how I feel about this. What does DU think? Would you rather see the GOP become a regional party and the Democrats running the country with 65%-70% majorities? Or for the GOP recognize where the American people's hearts and minds are, drop the racism and theocracy and divisiveness, stop selling us out to banks and corporations and become a true and honest major political party?

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lapfog_1  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Fri Jan-30-09 04:08 PM
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5. Actually, in the dark of night...
   
I wish we could colonize Mars with about 20 million republicans.

I suspect if you tried to pull that shit, there would be a pressing need for  a place to bury a few million liberals in a hurry.

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Hugabear  (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-31-09 02:12 AM
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63. Send them all to the Sun
   
Tell them that you'll send them at night, so they won't get burned.

Tee hee... The DUmmie tried for a funny.

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lapfog_1  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sat Jan-31-09 02:39 AM
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66. And they have to take the ashes of Ronnie Raygun with them
   
so when they land, Ronnie can finally contribute something to the universe.

E = MC2 indeed.

This, from someone that isn't even fit to speak the name.

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kath  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sun Feb-01-09 05:52 PM
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109. Yep - that's my dream - Repugs implode, leaving room for a new party (a party for the PEOPLE) to
   
form on the left.

Finally !! A party for The PEOPLE...

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T Wolf  (1000+ posts)    Fri Jan-30-09 04:50 PM
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30. Implode, explode, and disappear from our nation. Wanting them to remain is like
   
saying we need the KKK to balance out those desiring a non-racist society so that everyone can be comfortable in the middle where racism is still strong, just not as virulent as it was 100 years ago.

NO THANKS.

The two-party system you are so enthralled with has given us the choice between a right-wing and a center-right power elite, neither of whom have the best interests of the entire nation at heart. The best we get is a watered-down version of progress.

I would much prefer a more open system where all views, including the "extreme," have equal access. Then, the people can truly decide what they want from a full menu, not just the right-hand page.

As for fearing that more political options would produce chaos and possibly lead to a breakup of the monolith know as the USA - IMHO, that would not be such a bad thing.

To reiterate - I want them GONE.

A full menu ,translates to anything to the left of Stalin.

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AlinPA  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)    Fri Jan-30-09 09:13 PM
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52. The republican party is the religious right, only for rich white people,
   
against minorities, women and gay people, anti-science, not caring for the environment and equality. They wouldn't be the republican party if they stopped these things.

How can anyone be stupid enough to think like this ? Seriously. Liberalism is truly a mental illness.
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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2009, 04:55:38 AM »
As with everything else they weigh in on their knowledge of politics is zero.
They somehow always equate what they want with what really is.

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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2009, 06:52:57 AM »
"What does DU think?"

It doesn't matter.

DUmmie found a way to use E=MC2.....makes him look smart, doesn't it.
Don't know what E stands for in DUmmie physics but MC2 stands for mass confusion squared.



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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2009, 07:13:32 AM »
If we were shipped off to Mars our only problem would be how to rein in all the illegal immigrants trying to leave the failed liberal state known as Earth due to rampant crime, pollution and war.

I say we take them up on their offer.
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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2009, 01:28:23 PM »
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66. And they have to take the ashes of Ronnie Raygun with them
   
so when they land, Ronnie can finally contribute something to the universe.

E = MC2 indeed.

You know when my party was in charge I never once wished for their death, either personally or as a political party. It doesn't matter who is in charge, all life has value. Even UGP is important to someone or something. It just amazes me that they've convinced themselves how compassionate they are while calling for the death of half of their countrymen. They want to kill people over a political philosophy. I just...sometimes I just don't have the words...they want to KILL people because they don't think exactly like them. Wow.

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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2009, 01:40:34 PM »
Quote from:
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What does DU think?

There's a question of which, regardless of the answers they would offer, has disaster and stupidity written all over it.

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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2009, 01:48:38 PM »
The Little Goons think they are the pancakes at the parking lot breakfast.  They are really the little fat deposits in the link sausages.
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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2009, 02:21:51 PM »
Quote from: delilahmused on February 02, 2009, 01:28:23 PM
You know when my party was in charge I never once wished for their death, either personally or as a political party. It doesn't matter who is in charge, all life has value. Even UGP is important to someone or something. It just amazes me that they've convinced themselves how compassionate they are while calling for the death of half of their countrymen. They want to kill people over a political philosophy. I just...sometimes I just don't have the words...they want to KILL people because they don't think exactly like them. Wow.

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That is how facists and marxist think.
Always has been because it is the only way the system of government they want can be perpetuated.
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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2009, 02:28:02 PM »
Let me put it this way, if they shift left, they WILL implode.

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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2009, 02:40:17 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 02, 2009, 06:52:57 AM

DUmmie found a way to use E=MC2.....makes him look smart, doesn't it.
Don't know what E stands for in DUmmie physics but MC2 stands for mass confusion squared.



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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2009, 02:42:58 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on February 02, 2009, 01:48:38 PM
The Little Goons think they are the pancakes at the parking lot breakfast.  They are really the little fat deposits in the link sausages.

That's good. Made me laugh. Thanks.

But, now, you need to apologize to both the sausages and the pigs who gave their lives -- or, rather, had them taken away -- to become those links.
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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2009, 02:56:22 PM »
Quote from: Redstatecka on February 02, 2009, 02:42:58 PM
That's good. Made me laugh. Thanks.

But, now, you need to apologize to both the sausages and the pigs who gave their lives -- or, rather, had them taken away -- to become those links.

Forgive me. :embarrassed:
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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2009, 03:06:44 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 02, 2009, 06:52:57 AM
"What does DU think?"
DUmmie found a way to use E=MC2.....makes him look smart, doesn't it.
Don't know what E stands for in DUmmie physics but MC2 stands for mass confusion squared.

Or, Emptiness = [Malcontented/mindnumbed cretins/clowns]squared  
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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2009, 11:41:41 PM »
did anyone think they would back any kind of multi-party system??

not me.
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Re: Should the GOP shift left or implode ?
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2009, 11:58:08 PM »
Quote from: delilahmused on February 02, 2009, 01:28:23 PM
You know when my party was in charge I never once wished for their death, either personally or as a political party. It doesn't matter who is in charge, all life has value. Even UGP is important to someone or something. It just amazes me that they've convinced themselves how compassionate they are while calling for the death of half of their countrymen. They want to kill people over a political philosophy. I just...sometimes I just don't have the words...they want to KILL people because they don't think exactly like them. Wow.

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The last one in historic politics who thought this way killed millions of people and thought it was a good idea!
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