A Reminder

[SoxFan]

Democratic Underground is an online community for Democrats and other progressives. Members are expected to be generally supportive of progressive ideals, and to support Democratic candidates for political office.

You are not permitted to use this message board to work for the defeat of the Democratic Party nominee for any political office. If you wish to work for the defeat of any Democratic candidate in any General Election, then you are welcome to use someone else's bandwidth on some other website.

Do not post broad-brush smears against Democrats or the Democratic Party.

Just sayin'...

[derby378]

1. And your point is?

:shrug:

[SoxFan]

3. Res ipsa loquitor, baby, res ipsa loquitor

[derby378]

4. I'm in no mood for games

Seriously, what brought that on?

[SoxFan]

8. Open your eyes

If you have to ask, you're probably part of the problem.

[derby378]

9. Well, THAT certainly helped...

:sarcasm:

[EFerrari]

22. They are everywhere. Check under the bed.

lol

[John Kerry VonErich]

11. I'm with ya Derby

Need links to prove claim.

[jgraz]

24. Um.. it's "loquitur", with a 'u'

:eyes:

[butterfly77]

2. Kick,kick,kick &recommended!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[MineralMan]

5. Thanks for posting that. It's not enforced often enough these

days, I think. Recommended.

[tavalon]

6. And loudly, may I add?

[lame54]

7. Shhhh

[Radical Activist]

10. Is that really posted somewhere on this site?

[SoxFan]

12. I'm glad you asked!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules_detailed.html

[Radical Activist]

13. I guess that rings a bell.

[Scurrilous]

45. ..

[quiet.american]

14. K&R. nt

[kentuck]

15. Do you feel that the "progressives" in the Party are a liability...?

this year? And that they cross the line in their criticism? Or do you have a more specific example?

[jgraz]

25. Well, we make a pretty good scapegoat when the centrists lose elections.

Dontcha think?

[Winterblues]

16. Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman, Zell Miller, Blanche Lincoln........

:shrug: Just having a D behind one's name does not make them a Democrat....

[kentuck]

17. But just think of how much they contribute....

to tearing out the soul of the Party and making it impotent and unable to respond to most simple argument. Otherwise, they do give us the majority. It's a trade-off.

[Cha]

21. And, they're not on DU..this is for Democrats with

a capital D.

[nashville_brook]

26. like, Charlie Crist?

[jgraz]

35. Oh snap.

:rofl:

[DirkGently]

37. Ever notice that these endless reformulations of "dissent = disloyalty"

NEVER come with concrete examples? Which would be superfluous anyway, given that the behavior described would a) be instantly alerted upon by same people complaining,, and b) would be a violation of forum rules?

Given that, is there any possible point, other than to attempt to conflate criticism which makes the poster uncomfortable, with "broad brush smears against / trying to destroy Democrats?"

If you see someone "smearing Democrats", alert on it, folks. But If you think people are going to shut up and fall in line because you keep re-phrasing the idea that dissent = disloyalty, you are sorely mistaken. Democrats, big "d" or small, aren't fooled no matter how many times or how many ways the same attack is repeated.

[Scurrilous]

18. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Bobbie Jo]

19. Recommended.

:kick:

[OregonBlue]

20. Agree 100%. K & R

[pecwae]

23. Members already know

how to read and don't require all these 'reminders'. There are Mods and Admin here. Just sayin...

[Usrename]

27. Rule #2 has become an oxymoron.

Members are expected to be generally supportive of progressive ideals, and to support Democratic candidates for political office.

[jgraz]

32. Preach it.

[TheKentuckian]

28. Thanks Eugene, we'd be lost without you. Commies, commies, commies.

Emulating and blowing pukes is not a progressive value.

[jgraz]

33. Are you now, or have you ever been a member

of the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party?

[lonestarnot]

29. Red Sox fan?

:puke:

[Tarheel_Dem]

30. I guess our little community needs to be reminded of this occasionally.

I don't get it, there's a gazillion places on the net devoted to ripping apart the Democratic Party. I don't think it should be much of a stretch for the one with "Democratic" in it's name to actually be supportive of Dem officeholders, but that's just me. :thumbsup:

[Scurrilous]

31. ..

:thumbsup:

[jgraz]

34. That's not a community, that's a private clubhouse.

And like you said, there are plenty of places on the web where you can have a private clubhouse. Here, you might run the risk of seeing opinions that are (gasp) different from your own.

Deal with it.

[azmouse]

36. k&r

[rug]

38. You left out this part.

"Democratic Underground is not affiliated with the Democratic Party, and comments posted here are not representative of the Democratic Party or its candidates."

[scarletwoman]

39. +1,000

[TK421]

40. Conveniently ignored part of the rules page...and thanks for posting!

by the way....you are a lousy Democrat,rug....and you can go to hell and die!!@!@@ :D

[grantcart]

41. I have no problem with the part that you quoted and the OP should have included it

Do you have any problem with the part that he quoted?

[rug]

42. Other than appearing as if it fell off a New York Post headline, no.

[grantcart]

43. lol fair enough,

[Scurrilous]

44. Nice font.

:P