Proud member of the Wackadoo Wing of the Democratic Party.

I forgot to give credit to Maureen Dowd for the new name for our wing of the party. Kudos, Mo.

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Good quote.

Yessss!

Thanks for your post madfloridian, I'd like to steal your "wackadoo wing" at some time if it's OK with you.....

Let me check.

Me? I am totally sane and very passionate about my country.

NYCGirl did it .

are over the age of 35? If you lived through or grew up in the late sixties through the seventies, then what you knew as the Democratic party has almost no resemblance to what exists in it's place today.
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My goodness, there is no resemblance. I was never ever made fun of or humiliated for politics. There was passion, and no one was ashamed of it.

I guess the younger people may not realize the difference because the Noise Machine has marginalized us by the use of words like "liberal" (bad word.)

Now it appears it is natural for the party establishment to run from the populism that is rearing up now from even moderates like us. Our own party is letting the grassroots know now that we don't really have a place.

Humiliation tactics work well after all.

(I think it's #38?) I really identified with what the author, Wooldridge, had to say about America's political center of gravity (I think you will too). I've become more and more disturbed by how far to the right our party has moved since the seventies when I helped my mother with democratic campaigns; I simply don't recognize our party anymore. It's no longer OK to be anti-death penalty, or anti-gun, or pro-animal rights...even being an environmentalist is seen as a bit "wacky". Those WERE part of our core beliefs as Democrats, but the right wing has VERY successfully made us ashamed of those beliefs. They are destroying us from within, IMHO. It will take a whole army of "wackadoos" to shout us back towards the political center, let alone the left wing!

I have a copy on my older computer, but if you have it handy you should post it again.

It was brilliant, and it explains how they can so easily manipulate us.

http://www.freedomofthepress.net/
No investigative research, no questioning. Just state something and even the Democrats fall for it.

Kudos to both of you. It is why we are called "wackadoos" with impunity. No one even bothers to stand up and say "enough!"

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it's SoCaldem's concept, I just did the drawing. I wish I had more time for cartooning, but I'm so burned out on art by the end of the work day that I have no energy for it. :-(

Thanks for remembering us! :hi: I can't believe how this one made the rounds!

It just says it all. The dogs that don't hunt just look so smug and happy, like they know they are the ones who really have the power. Makes me feel sad and scared. I am reading The Republican Noise Machine, and I thought of this.

their master(s) feed and care for them well (deregulation, tax breaks, etc.) Except the NPR dog; she's very loyal, so she's confused about only being handed scaps for dinner.

The smug and happy media rejoices in dividing us. And you can include the newspapers locally as well. I am beginning to see some things in our local paper that are almost verbatim what I sent as research to a couple of reporters last year. It was ignored.

They have been smug and happy too long. Unfortunately, Mo's column had a very adverse effect on my hubby and neighbor. They are quite logical in their argument, for which I have no answer. They say Kerry needs to speak out and clarify if he disapproves of Gore's speech or not....still the most viewed at C-Span last I looked. Their argument is quite sensible, and I have no response to it.

Sometimes we must take on certain issues. We must.

Thanks for sharing your insights and talents!
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W is scratching the head of the Fox dog. I never noticed that. Ha ha. You are right about the NPR having their nose out of joint. That is really a good cartoon, very perceptive.

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Every once in a while I start forgetting why I loathe her. She never fails to remind me though!

We need a T-Shirt. :-)

We should all be wackadoos now. :evilgrin:

When called a member of the Wackadoo wing of the party is Thank You. Say it loud and say it proud. "I'm Wackadoo." Don't let the pukes define this noble word like they did "liberal." They stripped all the honor from that word, to the point that Dems ran away from it. Much the pity.

kick as I can't post a response to this right now. just find these comments about my president in exile, Mr. Gore, more than disgusting and distressing.

kids are people too, I loved Wonderama! Has anybody seen an aardvark?

wackadoo-wackadoo-wackadoo-doo-dooo

I don't remember that program. I taught the lower grades for years, so that type of song is special to me.

Yep, now and for all eternity!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/opinion/27DOWD.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fMaureen%20Dowd

"John Kerry's advisers were surprised and annoyed to hear that Mr. Gore hollered so much, he made Howard Dean look like George Pataki. They don't want voters to be reminded of the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party."

I guess that makes me a "wackadoo" too? ;) Fortunately, they let me vote anyhow. Now if I can only get them to count the votes ...

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I'm Wackadoo just like you.

and what the HELL is up with them screaming about his screaming? Which by the way, was minimal. THat was a POWERFUL, PASSIONATE speech.

Oh yeah they are screaming about his speaking style because they CAN'T ANSWER THE CHARGES HE BROUGHT AGAINST THEM!!!!!!

(that was screaming....from a wackadoo.)

Here too!

Proud liberal wackadoo reporting for duty. :evilgrin:

Thank you NYCGirl and madfloridian. :toast:

NT

Cynthia was right to ask the questions.

It is a shame. Our country never used to be this way.

black now'....someone had a great article in response to the spin that only blacks were protesting the FL vote and the supreme court decision

anyone have a link to that article?

It was right after that I decided to join the NAACP.

King of the Road - by Roger Miller. But I will wear that label with pride if it means I loudly criticize the Bush regime.

Since I am a Deaniac and a moveon member, I qualify for wackdoo status, I guess. LOL

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/opinion/27DOWD.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fMaureen%20Dowd

She manages to insult everyone in this article:
SNIP..."Mr. Gore blasted the administration's "twisted values" and dominatrix attitude toward the world: "Dominance is as dominance does."

"George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility," he said, in one of the most virulent attacks on a sitting president ever made by such a high-ranking former official. "Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world." (He did not ask the neocon cabal ringleader, Dick Cheney, to step down, perhaps in a spirit of second-banana solidarity.)

John Kerry's advisers were surprised and annoyed to hear that Mr. Gore hollered so much, he made Howard Dean look like George Pataki. They don't want voters to be reminded of the wackadoo wing of the Democratic Party...."

after all she attributes the "wackadoo wing" stuff to Kerry's advisers. I read that James Carville, Paul Begala, and the DLC wing of the Dem party. Even frigging Air America plays the Dean scream over and over during the day. Kerry supporters hate us (wackaddos), but they want us to vote for "their" guy. I will, but I don't have to like it. And MD was just exposing some of the BS.

I think when something like this comes up, people immediately need to say we stand together now. She is dividing us, and they need to counter it. Sometimes you just have to counter spin.

Democrat Party!!!...
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That's what those on the far right are succeeding in doing. First they redefined the term "liberal", Liberal politicians soon ran from the term by turning their backs on their core beliefs. Now partisanship and dissent on a Democrats part is "Wackadoo", while it's "patriotic" coming from anyone in the GOP. If we buy into any more of their psy-ops, soon no one will admit to being or voting for a democrat-and that's not far away at this rate.

By European standards, almost no one in the current democratic party is anything less than a right winger. Listen to what this British writer had to say this weekend on "NOW with Bill Moyers":


BRANCACCIO: If you're going to make any sense of this election year, you have to try to understand the soul of the Conservative movement that brought George Bush to power, and the Republican majority to both houses of Congress. To help us with that, we've asked two reporters to join me tonight. Michel Martin is a correspondent for ABC news, and a regular contributor to NIGHTLINE. Adrian Wooldridge is Washington correspondent for THE ECONOMIST, and the co-author of a new book. It's called THE RIGHT NATION, CONSERVATIVE POWER IN AMERICA. Welcome to NOW.
MARTIN: Thank you.
WOOLDRIDGE: Good evening.
BRANCACCIO: Adrian, knowing full well that there are 31 definitions for the word "right" in the dictionary, how, right is America right now?
WOOLDRIDGE: In this book, we try and argue two things. The first is that America contains a right nation, which is a vigorous, well-organized, well-distanced, conservative movement, unlike anything that exists in the rest of the world. But we also try and argue in this book that the center of political gravity in the United States is very much to the right of the center of political gravity in Europe. So, in one sense, the whole of America is a right nation, in the sense that they're more conservative on all sorts of measures than any single European country.

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BRANCACCIO: I was getting the impression, reading the book, Adrian, that it doesn't matter who wins in November. The notion is that the Conservative movement in America has already won, is the take away point that I was getting.
WOOLDRIDGE: I think there's a lot of truth in that. I think if you look at America in 1960 and now, this is a country that has moved very, very far to the right. Whoever wins the election in 2004, this will still be a right wing country, compared with Europe, but also compared with the America even of Richard Nixon.
It's not that it's irrelevant who wins. But the center of gravity is very much further to the right. I think a lot of Europeans think that this country has been hijacked by this right wing fleet of lunatics, and that their motto basically is waiting for the nightmare to end.
But I think if Kerry wins, the nightmare for Europeans won't end. There will be a brief honeymoon period. But on Iraq, on Israel, on Kyoto, on the projection of power abroad, on the virtues of the use of power versus the use of negotiations, America will still be an outlyer. And the Europeans will still be very discontented of America's attitude.
MARTIN: You know, I agree with you that the key difference between George Bush and John Kerry is not what, but how. I mean, this is a man who voted for the Iraq resolution, who has proclaimed that he is for America as the strongest military force in the world. That he wants to project American power. That's clearly necessary to win the election. But it also, I believe, is a core belief…
WOOLDRIDGE: Absolutely.

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BRANCACCIO: And from the European perspective, we really do, as a country, seem sort of off the charts conservative. There are European conservatives who think we're too conservative.
WOOLDRIDGE: Absolutely. I remember during the primary campaign in Iowa, going to look at Dean's supporters. And I was talking to one who happened to be Swedish.
What a Swedish person was doing working for Dean, I don't know. But he told me that Dean was the one person that he could work for. But only with a certain heavy heart.
Because Dean was really, in Swedish terms, a far right winger. And he said that Dean's attitude to health care, saying that you needed you know, basically some... is something that needed to be solved by the private sector was extraordinary, by his standards. But at least he was better than George W. Bush, and some of the other candidates. And…
BRANCACCIO: But you were back in London talking to some British conservatives…
WOOLDRIDGE: Absolutely.
BRANCACCIO: And what did you find?
WOOLDRIDGE: I talked to a lot of British conservatives. And they were very, very hostile to George W. Bush. They considered him to be far too right wing and far too…
BRANCACCIO: Tories in London…
WOOLDRIDGE: Tories, this is the closest ally that Britain has in Europe, this is the party that's most closely aligned to the American Republican party. Remember the days of Ron and Margaret, and all that sort of stuff. And these British Tories now think that George W. Bush, he's just off the charts.
Just too right wing. And they're much happier with Kerry. They're Kerry conservatives, almost.
BRANCACCIO: And luckily for all concerned, we dumped that tea into Boston harbor. And we don't have to really care…

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More: http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript322_full.html

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...I don't mind associating my name with the likes of Gore, Dean, Kucinich, Wellstone, Kennedy, Byrd...and all the other freedom/Constitution - loving WACKADOOS. (Living or Dead).

- Q, the wackadoo.

- On edit: I might add that Gore never 'yelled' at all. He provided emphasis and passion where called for in his long speech. Some of the greatest orators do the same...but they're not called 'wackos' because they don't currently oppose the Bush* cabal.

for the late night Wackadoos!