Comments on: He Just Needs To Go

By: We beat you yesterday, we’ll beat you today and we’ll beat you tomorrow at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source.

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:27:00 +0000

[...] Comments From the Left Field states that Harry Reid needs to step down as majority leader ( good luck with that folks) and goes one to state: This, however, is simply unacceptable, and given Democratic history this year on trying to pull the breaks on the Iraq war, inconceivable. From where I stand, Dodd’s vote can be little else but a symbolic attempt to stand firm, but it does little to actually forward any progress in putting an end to the Iraq war, especially when you consider that future bills will only be watered down in an attempt to woo Republican moderates over to our side. [...]

By: Kyle E. Moore

Kyle E. Moore — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:35:56 +0000

Yeah, like I’ve said, I’m at a point now where I’m ready to back some tough primary challengers.

And, I mentioned this in a convo I had with Matt last night, or maybe the night before, but I come right out and admit, I’m a Dem shill, mainly because what we’re doing right now really opens up for Republicans to sneak in there and win elections whilst we shoot each other in the face.

So understand that coming out even this far to criticize Dems takes effort on my part. But we agree here in that they’re just not doing their job, and someone with some brass testes or ovaries needs to get in there and quit this spineless crap.

I mean, this is the only option; fixing the Democratic party because as we’ve discussed back when you first came over, the third party option just won’t work. It’s like trying to brew your own cola and trying to put it out there to compete against Coke and Pepsi; your friends might drink it if it’s any good but no one else is gonna even know it exists (there, that oughtta get us going for some time).

By: mick

mick — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:25:47 +0000

I know you don’t buy this (yet) but I’ll say it again for the people just joining us: getting rid of Harry Reid would be pointless. The DLC/BD Alliance would just replace him with someone who’d do exactly the same things because what they’re doing is party-wide strategy. Al From & Co have convinced the party hierarchy (except, as far as I can tell, Howard Dean) that their best chance for winning in ‘08 is to keep the war going, and the minority BD Caucus is deliberately backing Republican policies because they’re conservatives and they believe in that shit.

NOTHING, imo, is going to change until the hold the Alliance has on the party is broken, and that isn’t going to happen unless primary challengers start winning on the basis of attacking Dem incumbents’ pro-war, anti-Constitutional voting records.