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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 12:47 PM
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Don't just go after Bush - Go after the Republicans!
Bush is a lame duck. It's the radicals in Congress, Tom Delay et al, that have to be defeated. They have no term limits. Look at the terrible job they have done in the last 5 years. They provide no oversight. They are busting our country. They are a rubberstamp for the moron in the White House. They need to be replaced. And soon.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 12:50 PM
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1. 100% Agree
It has to be on the CONservatives/Republicans as a whole. Just as they attack "liberals".

Also, I've found people are not as likely to be willing to listen if they perceive remarks as an attack on Bush. It's immediately dismissed as partisan then disregarded in whole.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 04:17 PM
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9. Here's how you do it: POISON THE WELL: It's subtle but it'll work.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 04:20 PM
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10. And here's how else you do it: SPECIFIC to the AARP business:
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wtbymark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 12:51 PM
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2. i agree
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 12:53 PM
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3. Amen. My new letter to the editor will question why the
REPUBLICANS are willing to spend $10,000,000.00 to destroy AARP.
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oneold1-4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 01:09 PM
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6. AARP will not destruct!!!
We are the ones with memories!! The regime can't really afford to have us around expounding on basic needs and freedoms!
We (all over 50) do need to keep organized in helping the youth to learn about just our own history in the 1900s. Lessons of history can help avoid what is happening to this country and the world.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 04:14 PM
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8. If $10,000,000.00 will not destroy the librul agenda of AARP, the
Edited on Tue Feb-22-05 04:14 PM by tsuki
corporate masters of the REPUBLICAN PARTY will raise another ten, and another ten, and another ten.

The corporate masters of the REPUBLICAN PARTY will not be defied. They have found the prefect "Ann Coulter" in Dubya. Outrageous, and polarizing. Someone they can hide behind, manipulate and then discard.

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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 12:54 PM
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4. An example of the terrible job is the $$billions$$ lost in Iraq.
They keep rubberstamping the checks.

Meanwhile, we go to work paying something like 50% more for gas, earning less, paying more. While Hummer drivers waste gas driving up the gas cost, congress doesn't lift one finger to end the energy crisis. We already know that hybrid technology would significantly boost gas mileage, but the waste goes on and on and on.

They sure do deserve to loose their jobs because they listen to big oil and automotive lobbyists instead of us.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 12:54 PM
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5. I agree
It's their followers. All they do is set things up and their sheeple do the bidding.
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oneold1-4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 01:27 PM
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7. A multiple front for disassembling everything
Cut benefits to elderly and disabled; cut veterans benefits to the bone before more vets and disabled come home; come on like a "savior" and stop Oregon's law of "Death with Dignity" and all laws of choice for women!! All this diverse "agenda crap" is being used to cover the reality that democracy is going down the drain, and a new "world leader" is going to be provided by the new regime!
Replacement with the ballot is not expedient, for the damage is in continuance daily!
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 04:25 PM
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11. We need to start this now and make it a habit
prior to the 2006 elections.

It takes the embarassment away from those who may now regret their Bush vote too. We need to make such people our allies.

Great post and well worth further discussion.

Definitely repeated :kick:-worhty.
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Hidden Stillness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:06 PM
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12. Our Destroyed Economy is Their Corporate Profits--Mention It!
I don't know why Democrats have not made more of a sustained attack on all of these people, as a group, for all the evil that they do. Do they really think they were avoiding being attacked themselves, or whatever it is, or do they really believe the bought-and-paid-for, operative media when it claims that we are not popular and Republicans are, etc.? Is it still some of the last vestiges (I hope last) of the corporate-owned Party that will not criticize the larger, corrupt system?

Whatever it is, they will always remain clueless as long as they follow the Al From/DLC road to Hell. They are not doing any of us, the country as a whole, a favor, by not clearly making the case that this criminal bastard DeLay is undercutting everything we know and rely on as a legal protection from corporate crime, abuse of workers and customers, and every other kind of malfeasance. This bastard benefits by being (relatively) little-known, not scrutinized, not critcized, getting away with crimes, threats, etc., that would've easliy outraged people--if only any Democrats would ever hammer away at it as a theme. They lock us out of conferences and will not allow us to propose bills anymore--outrageous! I would belt them in the fucking mouth for this!--and they do not suffer any consequences for it because nobody on our side ever complains!

For all the mounting anger at the corporate oppressor--downsizing and outsourcing all our good jobs, raising prices and gouging the life out of us, giving us no service anymore, closing down moneymaking stores as a tactic so now we are even more inconvenienced--if we would only routinely associate Republicans with their corporate donors until there was a commonsense link in people's minds, and the attitude of being fed up with all this abuse and debt and pressure of bills all made worse by the fact that the bills and prices and fees are all so price-gouging inflated, and we get no legal relief ever because Republicans killed the laws that protected us--all this disgust, and anger, and pressure, and fear, and thinking--all swirling around in people's heads and associating as one the anti-American global corporate price-gouging exploiter with the rich pimp's Republican Party, then at long last the light will go on, and we will be back where we belong. People have to be restored to the understanding, after all the years of phony propaganda against us, that Republicans and rich capitalists who abuse us, are, after all, the same group. This time, however, unlike the '90s--let's serve the middle-class and poor!
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 07:54 PM
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13. This thread is worthy of another "Greatest" nomination.
Edited on Tue Feb-22-05 07:55 PM by blondeatlast
I already did, so it's up to another. :hi:
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