What is the difference between a "disciplined" Republican party

[hedgehog]

and a Democratic "machine"?

I mean aside from the fact that the Republicans can stop anything with 41 votes and the Democrats need 61 votes to do anything?

[YOY]

1. They both seem to blame everything on "leftists"

Ironically the group that gets the least represenation...but hey...glad to be there for them and to vote for the one that actually stands a microscopic chance of fulfilling that representive goal.

[JDPriestly]

2. I still don't understand how I became a "leftist" unless some other

people became so rightist that they are actually fascist. But anyway, maybe they just label people who offer solutions that make more sense than the solutions they sponsor as "leftist." Maybe they are just jealous because, in the end, we are smarter than they are about how things should be done. Historically, as nations become NAZIfied or Fascistic, they gradually kill off all the leftists or at least try to. That's what Hitler, Mussolini, all of them did. They isolated and then killed those who had ideas different from theirs including all progressives.

So, we speak out, we offer our ideas and proposals at our peril in these desperate times.

Usually, some sort of event that the "left" had nothing to do with is blamed on "leftists," and the sadistic right-wingers vent their frustration on those "dangerous lefty revolutionaries." Never mind that many of them are children, virtually all are not only unarmed but pacifists or close to it. This is the stuff of history. Just study it.

[invictus]

7. +1

[treestar]

3. delete dupe

[treestar]

4. Republicans vote no on everything now

Democrats consider the issue.

[hedgehog]

5. Well, that's true, but I was actually aiming some sarcasm at

lazy talking heads who refer to Coakley as the "machine candidate". (No mention that she won a 4 way primary with 47% of the vote.) Somehow, the wildly disorganized Democratic Party has machines, while the lock step Republicans have discipline.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. 80 IQ points

on average

[groundloop]

8. Republicans are far better at getting their message out

Much of it, I believe, is because they own a large "news" network. They've got deeper pockets, and a huge interest in keeping those pockets full. In any case, their talking points aimed at confusing the healthcare debate have been wildly succesful.