Republican Pick-Up in Pennsylvania State House

[smoltchanov]

In any case, Howard Dean said stuff like "we gotta win guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks", but the true leftists today castigate them as gap-toothed racist hicks. There's a lot of selective nostalgia going on for the Dean era. He elected blue dogs, not Bernie Sanderses.

I'lll take Dean electing Blue Dogs over DWS electing nobody.

Me too. I would even go further and readily accept Blue Dog majority in House in place of present Republican majority... Especially - taking into account that "progressive majority" is out of question for many years to come, and i am not that young to wait 30 years.

[smoltchanov]

Another Obama success story.

Don't rejoice too early - she ran as pro-labor moderate. The type of republican you probably hate more then left-wing Democrats.

[smoltchanov]

In any case, Howard Dean said stuff like "we gotta win guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks", but the true leftists today castigate them as gap-toothed racist hicks. There's a lot of selective nostalgia going on for the Dean era. He elected blue dogs, not Bernie Sanderses.

I'lll take Dean electing Blue Dogs over DWS electing nobody.

Me too. I would even go further and readily accept Blue Dog majority in House in place of present Republican majority... Especially - taking into account that "progressive majority" is out of question for many years to come, and i am not that young to wait 30 years.

After all your protestations that you were a "moderate" who like "moderates [of both parties]" wouldn't the consistent application of your own words be that in thirty years you would trying to rally Republicans to support "blue dog Democrats" to keep "progressives" out of power?

Of course.

[smoltchanov]

Another Obama success story.

Don't rejoice too early - she ran as pro-labor moderate. The type of republican you probably hate more then left-wing Democrats.

Those type of GOPers are fine so long as they dont hold the balance of power.

A small piece of sanity...