Comments on: Contest Semifinals: Vote for Member Who Just Won’t “Walk the Talk”

By: Satorist

Satorist — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:13:23 +0000

Thompson. With an almost 10% Green Party vote in the last election, he’s the most vulnerable.

By: JClausen

JClausen — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:06:42 +0000

DWS

While I used to enjoy her and Kendrick Meeks on C-Span as a delightful contrast to Steve King(Nutcake Iowa) her failure to support fellow Democrats in Fla. really chapped my ass.

By: Leen

Leen — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:47:16 +0000

They could win many of us over if they did

I kept thinking during the Presidential campaign that McCain before he took Sarah on would start talking Bush administration accountabiliy. he would have taken the White House with that

By: FreeDem

FreeDem — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:36:24 +0000

Can’t we run real Democrats against all three in the primaries, DWS is perhaps the biggest name, but all are so deserving

By: Oilfieldguy

Oilfieldguy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:10:39 +0000

I vote for targeting DWS. She helped us with a cute stunt, passing out rubber stamps to republicans during W’s reign, but is entirely too inconsistent in her actions. This comes with a warning. She is fairly high profile and if we fail to take her down, she will be even more belligerent and feel invulnerable, with echoes of Lieberman. If we cannot defeat her pick Davis and just run some ads in DWS district, just enough to get her attention.

By: vmckimmey

vmckimmey — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:07:59 +0000

DWS I agree that when she would campaign against ross-leighten (sp) and now that she’s leader ship potential… LET HER LEAD!

By: GregDiablo

GregDiablo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:53:37 +0000

Li’l Debbie. That Red to Blue incident really put her over the top.

By: boogiecheck

boogiecheck — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:16:14 +0000

While I didn’t see this particular episode, I can attest to the “piling on” of posters at D-kos. It really startled me because I thought as progressives, they would be more open-minded towards others with different views. (This particular thread was on the connection of vaccines to autism and homeopathic remedies). I could not believe the ad hominem attacks and viciousness.

It was the main reason I pretty much stopped going there–I only occasionally go there now to read bill in portland maine or if I happen to catch Meteor Blades.

By: Funnydiva2002

Funnydiva2002 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:49:44 +0000

Exactly right.
Dan Froomkin and Glenn Greenwald are other examples of the Principles over Personalities doctrine.
As are Emptywheel and Christy and Spencer and Scarecrow and Attaturk, etc etc here at FDL.
So, Eve and Slink rock, and so do you and the rest of FDL!

FWDiva

By: Nutella

Nutella — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:37:08 +0000

Davis, because he’s in the safest safe seat there is.

If he does leave it to run for Cook County Board President he’ll be a shoo-in for that too because he is not the deservedly despised incumbent, Stroger. Cook County budget is $3billion so it could be seen as a step up from congressman.

Presumably he will bequeath his seat in Congress to a relative. That’s getting to be standard practice lately.