WI-Sen: Marquette: Thompson leading Baldwin by 8

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She certainly wants to run against the guy who called her a Commie. :rolleyes:

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/234349-wisconsin-senate-candidate-calls-rep-tammy-baldwin-a-communist

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I don't think it's wise politically, but is anything incorrect in that statement? Hint: the answer is no. 

Somehow I doubt Tammy Baldwin's philosophy has its roots in Marxism, unless we're defining 'roots' so extensively as to imply that Hovde's philosophy would have comparable routes in the comte de Maistre. Hint: American leftism has historically emphasized coopting the interests of people who would otherwise be Marxists into a left-liberal or tepidly social-democratic policy program.

well yea, by "roots" I think you can ignore some elements and focus on others.  For instance: Redistribution-ism and class warfare are common to both Marxism and Tammy Baldwin.   

There are a lot of things "common to both" Nazism and this Hovde fellow's ideology. Is it fair to say he has his roots in Nazism? No, of course not.

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Anyone who thinks the Democratic Party or American liberalism has ideological roots in Marxism is an ignorant, full stop.

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anti-communists? from before my time.  I could see your argument applied to the Reagan administration perhaps. 

Maybe read a little bit about American political history "before your time" and then come back to us.