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Posted by Jamastiene in General Discussion
Tue Jan 22nd 2008, 03:19 PM
I know I'm right on this much.

Y'all do know that if we VOTE for the same old song and dance that we've had for the past seven years now, we will GET more of the same old song and dance that has made us miserable for the last seven years? You know that, right? You get what you pay for and you get what you vote for.

Unlike rats pushing a lever, we Democrats seem to be incapable of learning from our past mistakes or at least we appear mighty damn slow at learning from them. If the rat pushes the lever and gets shocked enough times, they don't push that lever again after realizing that it's going to shock them.


But, but...
"We don't want to appear 'too far to the left' or we won't win the GE." I keep hearing that hogwash over and over again. Good little MSM robots do just what the MSM wants you to do. Brilliant strategy! NOT.

Here's why:
We had the same mentality going into 2004 and look what that got us. The most UN-RE-ELECTABLE president in the history of this country (Bush, in case I need to remind anyone) got RE-ELECTED. That seemingly brilliant strategy didn't work, did it? So, why are so many of us trying to use it again? Oh, MSM tells us to use it again, so we must comply like the simple minded fools they take us for. Brilliant.

Do I need to remind anyone this?
MSM has been telling us how wonderful Bush and his cronies are for the last 8 years. Yes, I'm counting the year before the 2000 election when Al Gore was being slaughtered by the MSM.

Now, they are telling us Obama and Hillary are the only viable candidates we have. They won't let Dennis Kucinich debate and they have already written off John Edwards. So, we have no choice but to do what they say and choose between generic DINO #1 and generic DINO #2, right?

Wrong.
Those of you who have early primaries have the power to work together and change all of this bullshit. You have the power to prove to the MSM we are no simple minded fools. Even if you don't prove it to the MSM, you can prove it to yourselves, can't you? Or are you incapable of pulling your heads out of your collective asses and working together to give those of us with late primaries (November) a chance to vote for the candidate we would like the opportunity to vote for?

Have you got it in you? Are you game? Or are you just going to roll over like DINO #1 and DINO #2 because it's the easy way of doing things?

Those are my questions. Fire away!
(Don't forget to mimic every single MSM and Faux talking head talking point while you are at it, because I know I can count on many of you to do just that.)
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