Mad_Machine76
Mad_Machine76's Journal"how are we going to get people out of bed to vote if we don’t stand up on the issues?"
Well, the answer sure isn't to let more Republicans get elected. In the meantime, instead of insisting on finding and electing "The One True Progressive" to the WH and giving up and staying home if he/she doesn't run or get nominated, focus on organizing from the ground up and helping more progressives get elected to local, state, and federal offices, which will help build a new "pool" of talent for higher office and help pressure the Democrats in Congress (and/or WH) to support their issues. It also seems frustrating to hear about progressives being "angry" with the Democratic Party when I look at where we were in 2008 and where we are now, much of it accomplished with President Obama and Democrats in Congress with one (or sometimes two) hand(s) tied behind their backs. Some progressives just want to complain more about what hasn't been done while ignoring what HAS been done and, in the meantime, the Republicans at the local, state, and federal levels have been busy organizing and getting themselves elected to office where they can enact their regressive policies. They would do well to remember that progress is a (long-term) process.
If you remember 2012
Quite a few candidates rose but then fell. No need to get worked up over Scotty. Also, one of them is going to win the nomination, eventually, and whoever it is is guaranteed to be repugnant to us. The only thing that matters is how they will appear to the rest of the public. How long would Scotty last against Hillary (or Warren or Sanders)?
They don't really even have to be a candidate
Despite all of the speculation, Palin has never once announced a run for the Presidency but continues to string the teabaggers along, making it seem as though she might, one day, run while continuing to grift right along while most of the rest of us schmos have to labor through yet another grinding day of a real, honest job. It's a nice scam for the wingnuts and provides them with an endless stream of money.
Does anybody really think
that lots of people (maybe even some Republican women, I wager) wouldn't be eager to elect Hillary as the first woman POTUS? 
Despite the fact that she ultimately ended up losing the Democratic Primary in 2008, she was not edged out by much. At the very least, hopefully, Democrats are enthusiastic about keeping Jeb Bush or whatever clown they end they wind up running in the GE from actually making it to the WH.
Wonder if he will similarly be visiting the conservative failed state
of Kansas (and many other "red states" run by Republicans)?
Yeah. And where all of those killed jobs?
Oh, and has anybody received their summons to appear before the Death Panels yet?
It almost seems like
repealing PPACA has become almost like a Republican "rite of passage", especially for its Freshman members eager to establish "teabagger cred" for the next election.
Were Republicans this obsessive about Social Security? I mean, did they hold repeal votes like this every year after they held control of Congress again after it was passed/implemented?
While nobody has called for beheadings here in US (yet)
There are people openly discussing going back to firing squads in order to avoid problems with lethal injections
Killing somebody, however done, is always brutal.
Being a person you could have a beer with?
He wasnt a stiff and snobby egghead like Gore (not my opinion of Gore, just the popular media perception at the time)?
No, it shouldn't
I think, however, she ended up being a useful idiot for riling up the Tea Party masses and "sticking it" to President Obama and agitating liberals (a more politically palatable Rush Limbaugh- though he had his day in the sun back in the 1990's). Her usefulness, however, appears to be at an end and Republicans/conservatives are just realizing, amazingly, that it is HER, not President Obama who is out of her element, lacks substance, and, apparently, can't function well without a teleprompter.
on that last point!
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