Conservatives have CPAC, what do progressives have?

[Joe the Liberal]

Well there is the conservative political action conference (CPAC) for all the douche bags of the right wing. But do we liberals have anything like that? a Progressive political action conference or something like that?

[Clio the Leo]

1. Um ... DU? :-)

Our jokes are better though ..... and we ALL be the MAN! (hee hee)

[leftstreet]

4. snap! I was just gonna say that

:rofl:

[Clio the Leo]

5. Yeah, you gotta not worry about spelling and just type really fast .....

.... like I obviously didn't "our" not "are" ..... this is why I shouldn't type and listen to the CPAC thingy at the same time, dumbs me down.

[cliffordu]

6. Dammit, beat me to it!!!!!

:rofl:

[Joe the Liberal]

9. Lol DU is great but...........

it's not like an actual conference, I don't think we have an annual meeting where liberals and elected democrats come to speak in front of a group.

[Clio the Leo]

12. Why it is to!

As a matter of fact Joe the Liberal ..... you're due at Barnes and Noble for a book signing ... dont keep those 12 people waiting! :)

In all seriousness .... we have that .... a forum where liberals and elected democrats speak in front of a group.

It's called "Congress."

Here's one of liberal big-wigs speaking at our annual meeting .... held three days ago as a matter of fact. (And since we're the Democrats and we're nice, we let conservatives come too.)



(Ok, I'll behave and stop messing w/you now. hee hee)

[Joe the Liberal]

15. Bwahahahahaha...........

12 people? not bad, Joe the plumber got 11, looks like I've beat him but that's not saying much! :rofl:

[Political Heretic]

2. Center for American Progress is a good think tank, Moveon.org has been a good PAC

I consider moveon to be pretty progressive. And Center for American Progress is extremely progressive on income inequality and poverty matters.

[Joe the Liberal]

8. Yea but.........

I'm talking about a political action conference where they have well known liberals/democrats attend and speak, do we have one of those? Exactly like CPAC except for liberals.

[cyclezealot]

22. The ADA usually has a big national rally

But, we have no big tent rallies such as the CPAC get together. Why not. It's been said liberals are too fragmented. Maybe , we've gotten the Reagan attacks on our loyalty get under our skin.. Don't let them do that..
A good start. Get a bumper sticker.. "Liberal and Proud."

[old mark]

28. I belong to moveon.org and I think they are pretty good. nt

[discopants]

3. YearlyKos ...

Netroots Nation

[DJ13]

7. The question isnt what group do we have like CPAC

The real question is would our version ever get coverage by the supposedly "liberal" MSM?

I doubt it.

[SpartanDem]

10. Not right now,

but it looks we may getting one now with these Accountability Now people. You know it can be a pain in the ass dealing with the DLC/Blue Dog members, having a party that runs from the center right to the far left can very unwieldy, but we see right now with the GOP what happens when you run too many moderates out of the party.

[napi21]

11. I'm glad we DON'T! It sure looks to me like that group are all the

nutballs of the Pub Party! I admit the Dems have a few nutballs too, but damn, I sure don't ever want to see them all in the same room! Besides, I don't think we have enough of them to even partially fill a small room.

[Clio the Leo]

13. Not to mention the fact that the only reason why a group would need to form something like that....

.... is if they otherwise had no actual power. It's a special interest group ... formed to make sure their voice is heard and not drowned out by .... all the sane folk.

[BuyingThyme]

14. Saturday Night Live.

[EraOfResponsibility]

16. LMAO!!!............n/m

[Thrill]

17. Mitch McConnell made fun of the Take Back America conference

[leftofthedial]

18. The DLC, to keep them from accomplishing anything.

[Undercurrent]

19. .

"Conservatives have CPAC, what do progressives have?"

We have:
Sanity
Adults
Realness
Ideas
Message
Compassion
Tolerance
Fairness
Intelligence
and a tough, smart, eloquent, cool President!

[Joe the Liberal]

20. Hahahahaha.........

That's true. :rofl:

[Undercurrent]

23. And the GOP's got nothin'!

Zero.

They're yesterday's news, offering a regurgitation of Newt-isms, wrapped in crazy string.

The party of zombies and loony toons.




typo edit

[Robeson]

21. Do you really think we need something that equals those...

...nut-jobs? Really?

[Urban Prairie]

24. "Conservatives have CPAC, what do progressives have?"

A three day 21st century unreality movie: "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" to watch:

Rush Limbaugh ... R.P. McMurphy
Ann Coulter ... Nurse Mildred Ratched
Newt Gingrich ... Dale Harding
Bob Corker ... Charley Cheswick

Tim Pawlenty ... Billy Bibbit

Karl Rove ... Taber
Arnold Schwarzenegger ... Chief Bromden

Jim DeMint ... Martini
Mike Huckabee ... Dr. John Spivey
Michael Steele ... Turkle

John Cornyn ... Fredrickson
John Boehner ... Jim Sefelt
Grover Norquist ... Warren
David A. Keene ... Washington
Richard Shelby ... Miller
Tom Coburn ... Col. Matterson
Ron Paul ... Bancini
Phyllis Schlafly... Nurse Itsu
Michelle Malkin ... Nurse Pilbow

Sarah Palin ... Candy
Michele Bachmann... Rose
Thomas Sowell ... Ellis
Ken Blackwell ... Beans Garfield
Star Parker ... Ellsworth

[Cirque du So-What]

25. Fighting Bob Fest

www.fightingbobfest.org/

[dcindian]

26. The ability to think?

I kinda like that more then the ability to be told what to think.

[AllentownJake]

27. Did anything good come out of CPAC?

All the video from there was embarrassing to them. It was nothing but hate and bile directed at the people who disagree with them. No new ideas came out of the conference.

Their "rising star" was a 13 year old boy who repeats what he hears on Hannity and Rush.

I don't really want to have our own CPAC.

[Exilednight]

29. After listening to a handful of speeches from CPAC, I am confident in saying ...........

thank <insert your choice of deity here> we do not have a group that is that crazy.

[Numba6]

30. the left? they excel at bitch sessions, throw 3 into a room & 4 movements come out, none of

none of whom will speak to the other ever again

:rofl:

the left doesn't have a group that's central to all progressive movements like CPAC seems to serve for the right

[Still Sensible]

31. We really can't have a CPAC in the sense they do

our tent is so much bigger, the range of opinion so much broader, and most of us encourage and applaud serious thinking and in-depth analysis of the issues.

CPAC is nothing more than a vehicle for the right wing to celebrate lockstep thinking, to reinforce their bigotry and class warfare, and serve as the purity patrol for greedy, hate-filled bastards.

[Giant Robot]

32. We have the White House?

:shrug: