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I think what happened was McCain found out the hard way that even inside the GOP you can't do anything unless you are part of the hive mind
no, they were pretty decent guys for a while
He did it after two months of the Republicans and the crazies screaming over and over at the cameras dismantling his position. If he went on from the start and every week and controlled the message not reacted to the counter-message results in public opinion at least would of been different.
That said, the ease of abusing that ability is tempered by the number of healthy parties and the ability of voters to throw out the offending party even when they can't agree on exactly which party should replace them.
For the first 5 seconds after they got out of the grave
the question is not whether passing this tax cuts and UI extension will help him with the hard right. it won't.
the question is whether it's
1) on balance better policy than doing nothing. it probably is
2) whether it's better than the realistic alternatives when it comes to winning moderates and liberals. it probably is.
When was this?
yesssss
"You oppose DADT getting reppealed? What a fag!"
you don't deserve your name!
I don't believe this. I have voted in every election since I was 18. Including the last one where I swallowed my pride and voted for Bennett because the other choice was just horrible to me. I voted for Hickenlooper because my choice was him, tea party Maes or the Nazi Tancredo! I will continue to vote the lesser evil. As will pretty much every Democrat I know. But I will tell you, if you put people with spines and fight you won't see the low turn outs because that is when it looks like your vote actually did something.
The key to winning is creating the illusion of power in the person voting. If they feel their vote did something positive and put someone into office who will fight for them they will vote. This is part of why Obama got such a decent turn out in this country relatively. He sounded like he would fight for not just things the Left wanted but things that the country wanted.
The Republicans time and again present to people this is what we are going to do for you. So people voting for them know they will or at least make the cursory try at it which is more than most Democrats recently.
waging indiscriminate war on all that lives > being a decent guy
There was never a McCain The Maverick in any real sense. It's not like that was his true personality or anything. He's always been a guy who took whatever position would get him media attention. That was the whole maverick myth when that was what it took to stand out from the pack and get on Letterman, and it was the good party soldier schtick when that was what it took to get elected.
There was never any there there. I'm not convinced he holds any actual beliefs
Third parties on the left have played spoiler in exactly one modern election, and that election was close enough to be decided by a movie theater full of people.
So what are you talking about.
you don't deserve your name!
you've never even been on nickelodeon, have you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04
yeah; that's my sense of it. left wingers are really just not constitutionally able to deal with compromise, dealing with the better of two unsavory alternatives, sucking it up and continuing to cheerlead for their team. we're a bunch of fucking babies. our structural deficiencies are nothing compared to republicans, but somehow they can pull together whereas we cannot.
i don't know how our liberals are so fucking flaky in this country and somehow every other first-world nation on earth has a better showing of liberals.
working on it yes
I'm just sad because unless the base is energized, voter turnout is shitty. No one gets excited about the tiniest incremental compromise.
I love you
and it all comes crashing down when Reaganwing flies again!
So I just play Left 4 Westminster.
Don't startle the Clegg!
Yeah, you have to keep voting even when you've lost. And convince the whiners who didn't vote to start voting and keep doing it even when they lose.
That's what it takes to sustain long-term change. Anything else and you don't really want change, you just want to whine about not getting the thing you were too lazy to ever truly work towards.
He's fucking slime, what he did to his first wife was disgusting. What happened to him was horrible in vietnam, but he currently encourages policies that put more servicemen in harms way which means FUCK THAT MOTHER FUCKER SHOULD HAVE DIED THERE!
http://exterminatorsassistant.blogspot.com/
I used to think that was the case as well, but this current government has done all sorts of thing like what I've mentioned, despite being in a coalition, despite all the normal safeguards.
On a related note, I was at a lecture on constitutional law tonight in London by NZ's former Attorney General/Speaker of the House of Representatives. One of the neat things about being a Kiwi is that I can meet this kind of person quite easily without having any connections or being a lobbyist
Slept with her? Because sleeping with McCain would be disgusting.
too late
All liberals do is compromise!
for once we'd like to win one
He didn't ask her, but he sure told her.
Divorced her after she got into a car accident and was disfigured, this was of course after cheating on her repeatedly.
http://exterminatorsassistant.blogspot.com/
A question for the ages.