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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:21 PM Original message |
"If the repubican party implodes, the Democratic party will split to fill the void" |
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Lint Head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. At least it will be all democratic. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. We're doomed. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. You really think so? |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
33. [/C3PO] |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. I think many, perhaps most, of the "democrats" in DC |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Well .... yeah ..... that's kinda why I'm thinking a failed rightist party could cause ours to split |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:33 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. methinks you may be onto something... |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. I dunno which would be worse ...... a left fracture or a right |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:49 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. anything that creates a viable party to the left of hard-right-of-center |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
5. No the GOP will reinvent itself into something different |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
6. I think the GOP will not implode. I think they'll contract and try to get their reputation back. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Getting back to being "the party of the abolitionists" would have to mean |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:28 PM Response to Reply #12 |
40. Naaah. They made up for that by championing black interests against the racists in the South. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
7. Well, splitting is usually our pattern. |
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wyldwolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. well.. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:46 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. The American people SUPPORTED health care reform |
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wyldwolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:00 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. and they still do. Unfortunately the left and the right couldn't agree on how to do it.. |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:13 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. When you used this phrase: |
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wyldwolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:30 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. sorry |
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demhistorian (128 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:36 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. the prevailing impression I'm getting from this discussion is this |
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wyldwolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. It's the same discussion over and over |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. I kinda like the name "Democrat Socialist Party," but "Green Socialist Party" |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:03 PM Response to Reply #8 |
37. Well, there's always the name "People's Part y" |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
9. Well, leftists have no real power in this country |
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wyldwolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
10. no. You'd see the rise of the libertarian party before the Dem party split. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Moo? |
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wyldwolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:35 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. yes. A moo point. it's like a cow's opinion. It just doesn't matter. It's moo |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-24-09 02:20 AM Response to Reply #23 |
45. "Because who cares what a cow thinks?" |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
13. How does a Party dissolve? |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:32 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Hey eleny |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:36 PM Response to Reply #16 |
24. Well hey, I like the sound of that! |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
14. Maybe that would be a good thing. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. I never said it was a bad thing ....... or a good thing, for that matter |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
17. You think we might go "corpororate/populist"? |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
18. I think the Republicans have to reinvent.. |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
21. Absolutely. I look forward to it. |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
25. I don't think they will implode (unfortunately) but the pendulum will |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
26. No, there's a danger, but that's not it. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
28. Yes. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
29. I could live with that. n/t |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:52 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I;m not so sure ...... imagkine a political landscape with a majority between center right and ..... |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 08:57 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Splitting the Democrats would be between Center right and solidly lefy, IMHO. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
35. Dems won't ever let the Rethugs completely implode |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
38. Yes...In Europe, you fight the election... |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-23-09 09:44 PM Response to Reply #38 |
44. Nice description. n/t |
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