Piss off the MSM...Piss off the Corporate Dems...VOTE!!!!!

[Ken Burch]

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Both the media and the corporate wing of our party want us to lose the Senate.

But there's an easy way to defy them...

get out there and vote for the Democratic candidates up and down your ballot.

Voting is now an act of resistance!

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. who are all these corporate dems.....

I would like a list and description of evidence that they are

[Ken Burch]

2. The point of the thread is to get people to vote.

The "corporate dems" include everyone who thinks the Clinton administration was better AFTER the GOP took Congress and those who think now that it's going to help us(in truth, it can't help us)for the Senate to go GOP this year so that we can supposedly run against the "do-nothing Congress". It also refers to the corporate donors who have basically taken over the party since 1992.

I wasn't saying anything about you.

[VanillaRhapsody]

6. and who specifically?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. Kay Hagan (D-NC)

1. Supported Simpson-Bowles.

2. Introduced legislation, along with Republicans Isakson and Enzi, which would have amended the Fair Labor Standards Act to place most IT employees in an overtime-exempt category (See S. 1747, Computer Professionals Update Act).

3. Co-sponsored the Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act (with McCain, Graham and 7 other Republicans) which would have offered a huge bounty to American corporations that repatriated profits sheltered abroad. And by "huge bounty" I mean taxation at a rate of 8.75% (or 5.25%, if certain employment conditions were met), drastically lower than the normal 35% corporate tax rate. This to American companies already sitting on how many trillions of cash?

4. Voted against the DREAM Act.

Four biggies for starters. But ol' Kay is a mixed bag, and proud of it, based on her "Sensible Centrist" ads running here in NC.

[VanillaRhapsody]

7. and how is she doing?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

9. Last I looked, she's up by a whopping 3 points.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/north-carolina/

[VanillaRhapsody]

10. but she is not being whooped which belies the theory

[WorseBeforeBetter]

11. What theory would that be?

Relativity?

Everything?

Change?

[VanillaRhapsody]

12. the idiotic theory that if only we ran far left candidates

In deep Red states they would win them....THAT theory...

[WorseBeforeBetter]

13. North Carolina is not a "deep Red" state.

It is a purple swing state.

What constitutes a "far left" candidate? Who, in your mind, is "far left"?

[Ken Burch]

20. not "far left" candidates....candidates that stand with the have-nots instead of the haves.

Most people are not "winners" in this country...we don't have to appease people who see themselves as "winners".

We need a Jim Hightower mindset for the red states.

[Rex]

14. Goodluck getting any kind of sensible answer. nt.

nt.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

15. FAR LEFT!

Naturally.

[Ken Burch]

21. She got her ass handed to her at the polls.

She could have been elected by connecting with the energy of "Moral Mondays", but refused to do so.

So much for triangulation.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

17. Ed Rendell: Jeb Bush Would Make a GOOD PRESIDENT

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025752341

One more for ya.

[hobbit709]

3. Someone had a cow but it didn't get far.

Piss off the MSM...Piss off the Corporate Dems...VOTE!!!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025748509

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[Ken Burch]

4. Doesn't surprise me.

Thanks for letting me know.

And yes...the point is to get people to vote...because a lot of major forces in the country want to hold the vote down.

[VanillaRhapsody]

8. and THOSE would NOT be Democrats...

[SidDithers]

16. Right. Corporate Dems want the Democrats to lose the Senate...

Sid

[Ken Burch]

19. They did, and they got their way.

There's no way you can describe our party's "strategy" in this campaign as anything as a deliberate effort to make sure we lost.

This could have been avoided, but that would have meant treating workers and the poor like they mattered.

[lpbk2713]

18. Give Rick Scott a boot in the ass.

Please let it be.