Anyone who calls themselves a progressive and votes for Scott Brown

[cali]

isn't a progressive. And frankly, if you sit it out, you're a piss poor progressive and a selfish one at that.

It really is that simple.

[DesertFlower]

1. i agree. nt

[graywarrior]

2. My 83 year old neighbor who can barely walk just told me he's driving himself to the polls

tomorrow to vote for Coakley because he "hates Brown's f'n guts." LOL! We offered him a ride, but he wants to take himself there to make a point.

[cali]

4. I'd like to kiss him.

he's worth a 100 of anyone who's voting for Brown to send a message.

[graywarrior]

5. I hugged him.

And he can blare his TV as loud as he wants from now on.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. Serious question:

I have seen a lot (a LOT!) of calumny about liberals on DU saying Brown should win but I haven't been seeing anyone actually saying that.

Do I just have all the right people on ignore, or what? Seriously... I see a lot of threads that seem to be battling a phantom.

I put a bunch of people on ignore last year who said the economy should be allowed to fail, so maybe that's it.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. A couple of people have been tombstoned for saying it and several more posts have been deleted

Personally I have alerted on 3 people who expressed such wishes.

[cali]

7. yeah, it's there.

crap about progressives will vote for brown to send a message or out of pique- not that the word pique was used. And it's not just one person with this shit either.

[geckosfeet]

12. Classic cut off the nose to spite the face syndrome. Nursery rhyme stupid.

[TorchTheWitch]

9. I'm seeing the same thing

Where are these mysterious progressive voters for Brown on DU?

[Recursion]

15. No, but there's a lot of "here is why Brown will win"

Which is a big difference in a way.

[griffi94]

17. i don't have anyone on ignore

and i haven't seen anyone here say anything other than they hope coakley pulls it out.
i've seen some state that their support was lukewarm and they would vote only not donate or volunteer, but even the more cynical posts i've seen all say they want coakley to win.

[Bobbie Jo]

8. K&R

:kick:

[jaxx]

10. A dem who would want a pub to win isn't much of a dem to start with.

And staying home is giving up. Quitting.

[Ohio Joe]

11. K&R - Very well said - nt

[pleah]

13. K&R If anyone they calls themselves and Democrat or a Progressive

votes for Brown is a fucking liar. They are neither a Democrat or a Progressive.

oops, spelling. Time to cut my nails.:blush:

[Tailormyst]

14. I haven't seen any yet

The only ones I see swinging for Brown are pissed off independants. I think we are fine with the Dem vote, but need to find a way to let the indies know how much Brown is NOT a moderate. That is the big problem. She waited too long to campaign AND switched her view on HCR. So voters are seeing Brown as the hero of the working class (fucked up, I know) and Martha as part of the same corrupt, BS status quo. Not sure how much we can do to change minds. Right now I am just hoping we manage to pull out a win somehow.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. You're correct ..... but ......

.... who the fuck are you talking about???

:shrug:

[sendero]

18. If I lived in MA..

... I would not vote for Brown. But then I wouldn't vote for Coakley either.

I just wouldn't vote. Because really, Obama has proven that voting doesn't matter.

[wisteria]

19. I agree, anyone who would allow Brown to win by not voting tomorrow is rewarding the Repubs

for eight years of hell and a year of obstruction and lies.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

20. Hey Cali...

My post about the negligibility of the disenchanted far-left as a real-world election factor is not an answer to this post of yours.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7501965

I agree that no progressive should wish for Brown to win. I also think that if Coakley loses there will be much scape-goating here that will be utterly senseless because the phenomenon blamed will have had no effect on the actual election.

Not incompatible statements.

[flamingdem]

21. ... is a douche! Jeez, people he is an airhead! nt

[Alias Dictus Tyrant]

22. There are a lot of Democrats that don't consider themselves "progressive"

There are a many parts of the country where party affiliation is more social than political. Just because people call themselves "Democrat" (or "Republican") does not mean that they actually vote that way with any reliability. And to be perfectly honest, I have no idea what political labels like "progressive" actually mean -- people that self-describe with those labels can't even agree. Ideas matter, not random identity groups created out of thin air by social primates.

At the end of the day you have to appeal to principles, not party affiliation or political label. Politicians that forget that can inadvertently find themselves on the wrong side of an election every now and then.