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Nimrod2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:28 PM
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HOWARD DEAN: PLEASE FORM A NEW PARTY!!!
You are too good for these people, too articulate, too honest, too reasonable to work the average Washington politics.


I want you to know: You speak for me Sir!!! Everytime.

Do it, form a new party, I know many will follow.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:28 PM
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1. Yes!
What do we have to lose?
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:30 PM
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4. What do we have to lose?
Every election for the next 30 years.

Howard Dean is a Democrat through and through.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:35 PM
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13. Like we are ever going to win another one again, anyway?
That doesn't mean there can't be coalitions, but the Democratic party no longer represents my interests and there are 1000's more like me. We have a right to have our own party, that stands for our values. I think there is room for more then two parties in this country and the sooner the better.

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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:39 PM
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18. Going third party would GUARANTEE we never won another.
You want to go third party, go ahead. It's a free country
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:29 PM
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2. Amen!!!
YES! I support a new party under Howard Dean!!!
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:29 PM
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3. I have only one thing to say
:rofl:

Like that would *ever* happen.
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WildEyedLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:32 PM
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7. Hmm
I'll take your :rofl: and raise you double.

:rofl: :rofl:
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:33 PM
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8. I'll give you one of these
:spray:

Your move...
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WildEyedLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:37 PM
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15. I've got a
Full house:

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :dunce: :dunce:

Beat THAT!
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:43 PM
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22. Royal Flush
10:o
Jack:D
Queen:*
King:P
Ace:hippie:

Read 'em and weep
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WildEyedLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:55 PM
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27. Ouch
To the victor go the spoils - here's your prize: :tinfoilhat:

You'll need it around here!
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:30 PM
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5. If he thought that was the answer, I'm sure he would...
the fact that he's not doing that should speak volumes.
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:31 PM
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6. You know - I thought that was where PDA was going when he was there. nt
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:33 PM
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10. He was never with PDA. That was DFA, which still exists.
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:49 PM
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23. delete
Edited on Tue Feb-14-06 03:53 PM by cyberpj
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shireen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:33 PM
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9. take Paul Hackett with you!
He deserves better than the way the Dem. party has treated him!
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Nimrod2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:35 PM
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12. Hackett was the reason I posted this thread!!! Agree 100%.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:33 PM
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11. NO! WE need to help Dean fix the one we have!
The US political system is purposly designed for only 2 parties! You may not like it, but it is! Sure, you gt an occasional Independant elected but that's the best you'll ever see! Be realistic instead of idealistic.

Howard IS doing the right thing for the Party, but he needs help from EVERYONE OF US! He CAN'T do it alone!

There's a very entrenched group (DLC) fighting against him and everything he's trying to do, and he's still succeeding! But he needs our help to PROVE to the DLC that their ways are wrong! We need to change THEM!
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:36 PM
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14. One we have now, "MOST" of them are NOT fixable!
I'm with Dean!
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:37 PM
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16. Both parties need to split
Maintaining the status quo will get us nowhere.

Sorry if you don't like it, but the first viable alternative party that comes out of this is where I'm going.

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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:38 PM
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17. No
As I'm sure you are well-aware, the US system is geared against third-parties. I find it ironic that those so willing to punish the Democratic party for lack of immediate results in line with their way of thinking want to set up a third party that will take generations to achieve any kind of national viability.

Hey kids, dislike spinning your heels in the Democratic party reforming it from the inside over the next 20 years?

Why not start a third-party, and either rely upon vanity candidates or spin your heels for the next 60 trying to achieve national viability? Hey, but then, at least you'll get the opportunity to bitch without having to take any real tangible action that will matter.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:41 PM
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21. Next twenty years? Given how many of our candidates
are trying to make us over into the other Republican party, I'm not sure we'll survive this midterm election as a nation. We have 3 years left of the rule of the antichrist.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:40 PM
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19. PDA and DFA merger and go national.
My dream party.
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:40 PM
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20. Yawn
Same old argument that comes up when something doesn't go they some would like it. Do you really think that would work in this winner take all system? It would be more harm than good to form a new party, what would happen is the Democrats and the new party would split the vote and the GOP would win big.
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jsamuel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:50 PM
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24. Why form a new party when we have the skeleton right infront of us to
build on.

Think about it.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:51 PM
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25. Some of that skeleton is disintegrating. It no longer has
substance.
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jsamuel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:52 PM
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26. then replace a bone or two
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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-14-06 03:59 PM
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28. Locking...
Advocating for a party other than the
Democratic party is not permitted.
This is also flamebait.


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