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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 11:44 PM
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Has anyone heard this...?
I found this posted by a Republican supporter and I'm trying to find the validity of this statement.
I have googled and such but cannot find any truth to it...what do you all think...?

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Democrat National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said today that America is not ready for his party to nominate its first openly-liberal candidate in the post-Reagan era.

"Officially we have a 'don't ask-don't tell' policy regarding liberalism," said Mr. McAuliffe. "No openly-liberal candidate will receive the nomination."

The DNC manual suggests that secretly-liberal candidates refrain from public displays of affection for big government, higher taxes and weaker national defense. Studies show that while mainstream Americans favor tolerance for liberal ideas -- like increasing government control of schools and tax-funded prescription drugs -- they would rather call it something else, like "compassionate conservatism."

Mr. McAuliffe said that none of the top Democrat candidates is openly liberal.

"Everyone knows that Dean is a fiscal conservative," he said. "Lieberman is a social conservative, and John Kerry is a professional Vietnam veteran married to a wealthy heiress. If any of them are closet liberals, they only act on it in the privacy of their offices."

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HungryLoser Donating Member (92 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 11:50 PM
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1. Maybe they're all afraid
of Anne Coulter
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 11:55 PM
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2. Thanks but that didn't
answer my question...

Is this just some more garbage the Rethugs are trying to pass on or did McAuliffe really say that...?
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 11:59 PM
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3. Are you missing your "sense of humor" gene?
read it again. It's obviously "ironic"
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 12:01 AM
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6. now that you bring it up...
i can see your point...
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 11:59 PM
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4. Looks like rethug garbage to me n/t
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 12:00 AM
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5. sounds like bs to me
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Brian Sweat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 09:06 AM
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13. You can usually bet that when somoene post a story
with no fucking link that it is a bunch of horse shit.
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Jolene Donating Member (322 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 12:04 AM
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7. Scrappleface
Edited on Wed Aug-06-03 12:05 AM by Jolene
http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001115.html

Also reporting:

Alliance Sealed: Jenna Bush to Marry Prince of Qatar

http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001114.html

and

Gov. Dean Heals Leper, Walks on Water

http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001111.html
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 12:23 AM
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9. I bet that's where
the Rethug got that...sounds pretty absurd to me...
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diamondsoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 12:09 AM
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8. Um, I think it's mean to show
the silliness of the anti-gay marriage position but maybe the Dittohead thought it was a real quote. ;D
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 12:53 AM
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10. Check it out...
Dems won't nominate openly-liberal candidate
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 08:00 AM
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12. Hi diamondsoul!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 01:23 AM
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11. Oh Gawd!
I didn't read it carefully.

What a crock of shit.

I just wonder who's behind it? A pug or a liberal trying to get McAuliffe canned?
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-06-03 09:47 AM
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14. "Look at what the cat dragged in!"
:eyes:
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