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He is so totally wrong (5.00 / 4) (#10)
by andgarden on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:23:43 PM EST
and his latest post compounds the problem. He lists "ideas" that came from the Republican right, but doesn't seem to understand that none of them had anything in particular to do with why the Republicans won.

No, they won mostly because they were able to appeal to whites in the South with various expressions of racism and bigotry, and to hold the line in the north with anti-tax rhetoric.

That's a different point (5.00 / 2) (#12)
by Big Tent Democrat on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:25:44 PM EST
I would ask him what new ideas he believe the current crop of Dem candidates are bringing to the table?

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I think it goes directly (none / 0) (#15)
by andgarden on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:29:57 PM EST
to his misunderstanding of how they did what they did.

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You are referring to his seoncd post I take it (5.00 / 1) (#23)
by Big Tent Democrat on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:49:33 PM EST
I will take that one apart tomorrow.

A bad night for Kos.

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politely, I hope! (5.00 / 1) (#24)
by Jeralyn on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:52:15 PM EST


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I agree... (none / 0) (#28)
by ctrenta on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:58:56 PM EST

... thanks for saying that Jeralyn.

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Big Tent (none / 0) (#38)
by Judith on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 08:33:40 PM EST
has been very polite - he call Kos his friend.  And friends can disagree.

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gee, i hope not (none / 0) (#56)
by skippybkroo on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 12:28:46 AM EST
why else would i read big tent?

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It will be fun to watch though. (none / 0) (#66)
by oculus on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 01:22:15 PM EST


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Sorry, the second one pissed me off more (5.00 / 2) (#25)
by andgarden on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:52:37 PM EST
and I saw it first. I think the 3rd one proves that he's got some Clinton derangement tonight.

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DKos jumps the shark tonight... (none / 0) (#44)
by rhbrandon on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 08:50:12 PM EST
Been over there off and on during the evening. Kos is jumping directly into the fray on behalf of both Obama and his supporters over there. It's pretty ugly. Huge comment numbers (hundreds) in a matter of minutes. on

For my part, I'd like to reserve January 18, 2008, beginning at 6 p.m. CST, as my nominee for the moment when DKos officially jumped the shark.

He's officially pulled the Limbaugh of his time (that is, when Limbaugh went from being "conservative" to being outright "Republican", supporting G.H.W. Bush to succeed Reagan in 1988). In this case, he's gone from being Democratic to a partisan of a faction in the party.

Whatcha' think?

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naw, he jumped the shark last february (none / 0) (#57)
by skippybkroo on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 12:29:32 AM EST
when he took skippy off his blogroll!

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Dang skippy! (none / 0) (#58)
by rhbrandon on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 06:05:09 AM EST
Yep. Similarly, I miss BTD over there.  He has that attorney's way with words that artfully but effectively ticks opposing counsel into unexplicably losing their composure.

That reminds me. I was sitting in court last week watching an old criminal defense attorney tick off a young (female) AAG on a forcible rape/forcible sodomy case that should have never been filed in the first place. Gist: gallant man tries to give drunk underaged woman a ride to her boyfriend's house from a bar where he's been with his friends (for her part, turns out that she's been drinking all day and "servicing" men in the parking lot). Big mistake. Still drunk, she starts grabbing the wheel; he brings her back to town. She drunkenly files a complaint, and off they go.  

Got the AAG mad enough for her to tell the jury in the second part of her closing that they didn't have to believe two of her own witnesses. Defndant acquitted after they had lunch at the county's expense and time to read the instructions.  

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change! (none / 0) (#65)
by ghost2 on Sat Jan 19, 2008 at 11:37:35 AM EST
and hope!

Whatever that means.  

I really think 'change' is a clever marketing ploy to say: get rid of baby boomers.


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