Please don't tell me that we have to be more like Republicans after this election.

[kentuck]

That we are too far left? Or that the agenda was too bold?

That the only way we can regain power is to move to the "center", in other words, become more like Republicans?

Is that the direction we are headed?

If so, deal me out.

[RKP5637]

1. Recommend!!! n/t

[aquart]

2. Goodness, no!

If the Republicans get their tsunami, Republican governors with desperate states will be up against a tea party Congress that doesn't want to give them anything.

We might not have healthcare, food, homes, or jobs after this election, but we will have entertainment.

[Poboy]

4. Indeed. Not much bread, but a 3 ring circus. -nt

[earthside]

3. "I asked you not to tell me that!"

Sorry, Max.

(But that is exactly what we are all going to hear.)

[HughMoran]

5. You and Democrats need to believe in yourself

Nobody can tell you what to think.

[OHdem10]

6. No, Look at close the numbers are : 48:46 45: 44 and on an on

In races where Republicans are ahead the Dems are very close.

The GOP may get say 47% of the vote but there were 45% who
did not at all agree with them and voted for somebody else.

This is why it is so important to vote. Even if you lose
you show where you stand in regards to the other party.

[Jester Messiah]

7. Hell no.

What we have to do is fight harder, and get our representatives to fight harder. They have to counter the lies and baseless assertions. They also have to call it out when asked a question based on faulty assertions. We can all take a page from Rep. Grayson and his bareknuckle brand of politics.

[Recursion]

8. Look at the tea party

They had this exact same conversation after 2006 and 2008. They decided the problem was that the Republican party wasn't conservative enough, and that they needed to be real Republicans rather than RINOs and then the great squishy middle of the country (who is secretly conservative, doncha know?) would flock to them. This decision seems likely to cost the GOP a chance of taking the Senate. (You guys do realize that the Republican base is as disappointed with GOP leadership as we are with Democratic leadership, right?)

We may face a similar choice, and be similarly deluded that the great squishy middle of the country is secretly liberal and wants us to move farther to the left. And it will be just as much of a fiasco as the tea party is becoming for the GOP.

[Angry Dragon]

9. We HAVE to be more like the republicans

When they say to keep the tax cuts for the wealthy: NO
Social service cuts: NO
Revamp the Constitution to fit the republican views: NO
Need to relax regulations: NO

Please feel free to add yours.........

[mod mom]

10. that's the DLC mantra...

and it won't get my $, volunteer hours or vote.

[Winterblues]

11. I am voting Democratic THIS election but I want them to know they are on Notice.

If they allow Bush*'s tax cuts for the wealthy to stand and move further to the right than they already are I will just bow out and forget all about politics because it won't be worth my time...I hope they notice the Democrats that are in real danger of being thrown out are the conservative Democrats....The Liberal Democrats have pretty smooth sailing. Their base seems happy with them but the opposite is true for the conservative Blue Dogs.....If Democrats are too stupid to see and recognize this fact then I do not need to be a part of them..

[BootinUp]

12. lol, oh dear.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Its going to be interesting. You have an electorate that thinks we are going in the wrong direction and they don't think the repukes can fix it but they are going to vote them in (possibly) anyways. Ain't politics fun?

[joeybee12]

13. I won't...butif you don't want to hear that, don't turn on the news or read the newspapers...n/t

[dionysus]

14. "we have to be more like Republicans after this election"

well, you asked for it...
:P

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

15. This country would have to take a 90 degree turn hard left

Just to GET to anything that could reasonably be called a "center".