Originally posted by psmith81992
Nobody is going to look beyond hilary and bernie but the minor stipulation should be just fine.
They should get some awareness, but I doubt it's enough.
Also q99, unceasing hate? Really? I understand saying that is necessary to make your point but come on.
Um, yes? The Republican party has campaign on a no-compromise-with-Obama policy for the last 8 years. They try and paint him as not an American, and so on.
They outright said they used the debate on health care purely as an attempt to try and sink Obama, and haven't been any more interested in working with him since.
And remember how much hate Chris Christie got for hugging Obama for *helping him deal with hurricane aftermath*, and how people treat that as a giant black mark on his record.
Not everyone, but there is a very, very large chunk of your party that keeps a nice steady hatred of Obama going at all times.
I mean, some people here, obviously so.
Originally posted by psmith81992
I think that the chunk isn't huge at all. Not everyone is boehner. In fact last i checked, most people aren't boehner.
Um, Boehner's more willing to compromise than a pretty good sized chunk of the Republicans in congress. Sure, that's still historically low levels, but the reason he did was because a lot of the party came to him.
Not being far enough in this area has cost *many* moderate Republicans their seats. Being primaried by further right people and their support has cull a lot of the more centrists from the party.
Heck, let me remind you that one of the current Republican candidates is an actual Birther- and a full 64% of Republicans were birthers at the peak.
Obama's kinda a larger than life figure to hate to much of the party.
Though this is kinda a tangent from the debate....
And again I'm liking webb.
Probably for the reason he's my least favorite- he's not very far left on a lot of issues, and is more like a moderate Republican from a decade or two ago on a lot of things. Heck, he's further right than the former Republican.
I'd take him over the Republicans, but he's too far right.