theprof00 said:
badgenome said:
If you really believe that's not a common sentiment on the left wing of the Democratic party, you are not being honest with yourself.
It's not, nobody in the democratic party considers blue dogs as healthy activity. You're trying to point out hypocrisy that doesn't exist.
There is a huge amount of overlap among the "groups" you named to the point that, with the exception of the religious right, you're just talking about the same people and calling them different things. To the extent that there is a war in the Republican party, it's the result of a leadership vaccum and the fact that conservatives are fed up with the GOP establishment who have been no more fiscally responsible than Democrats. The first problem should be solved once nominate a presidential candidate (if he's not an unelectable sack), and the second will be solved once the Karl Roves of the world realize they're not in the driver's seat anymore and can't win shit without those groups.
The only overlap in those groups is a shared end. They all want liberals out of power. How can you even begin to compare blue dogs with the division in the right between GOP and Tea Party? I'm surprised, to be honest. You act like it's such a small division can easily be fixed by a nomination! Let's wait til that happens and see what you say then. Just so I can be sure, what kind of candidate would be ideal?
Really, the Democratic party is at least as fraught with internal contradictions as the Republican party. Probably much moreso.
Says the side who complains that liberals vote along party lines 95% of the time. The right is always right, right?
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Except every Union democrat and you know, conservative democrat in the states that they exist in... and the large number of democrats that thought the healthcare bill was a bad idea.
Blue Dog democratic senators opposed the bill because it was a shitty bill their consitutiants didn't want.
I mean, why the heck else do you think they did it? Heck why do you think so many senators and representatives are set to lose their positions?
Why did Scott Brown win a seat in a highly democratic state when his platform was "No to the healthcare bill."
