DNC: Republicans meet amidst chaos, coming apart at the seams

madfloridian

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Fri Mar-10-06 07:53 PM
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DNC: Republicans meet amidst chaos, coming apart at the seams

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/03/grand_ol_parody.php

"On the weekend Republicans gather in Memphis to coronate their standard bearer for the 2008 presidential election, the GOP is coming apart at the seams. A party that once stood for respectable conservative principles has become a mere parody of itself. The party that once stood for fiscal sanity has run up the largest deficits in American history. The party that once campaigned on a strong national defense has weakened our security because of complete ineptitude in their prosecution of the war in Iraq, and was willing to hand the keys to our ports over to a foreign, state-owned company with ties to Al-Qaeda. The party that once stood for minimal government intrusion is protecting a full-scale domestic spying program and increasingly looks to take up residence in the bedrooms and doctor's offices of Americans across the country. It's no longer the Grand Ol' Party, it's become the Grand Ol' Parody.

The party once praised for its ability to keep a broad coalition together, is now marked with complete disunity and open revolt:

More here:
http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/03/grand_ol_parody.php

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OzarkDem

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Fri Mar-10-06 07:55 PM
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1. They've always been a parody

Never been anything more than a farce.

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adigal

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Sat Mar-11-06 08:01 PM
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5. Thanks for the good news

It makes me happy to hear Dean say things like this.

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KoKo

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Sat Mar-11-06 03:15 PM
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2. Kick and Recommend. Folks always ask what's Dean doing and yet this

post about what he's doing sinks into the archives... sheesh.

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madfloridian

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Sat Mar-11-06 04:24 PM
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3. Then there will be another post about why they don't speak out.

You are right.

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paulk

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Sat Mar-11-06 07:54 PM
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4. the Republican coalition is falling apart

while all we see here at DU are threads trashing Dems

and positive threads like this one sink like a stone

:shrug:

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