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Good one, Plant. Really.

Plantagenet - Sally is a varient form of Sarah. I am either surprised that you don't know this already or disappointed that you are playing dumb. Which is it?

Hey Plant, thanks for showing us yourself how truly stupid you are. Now, don't get your panties in a bunch but several points need to be made here. 1. Sally is a long recognized nickname for Sarah. 2. Not being relevant is something you know a great deal about so tell me what you don't understand and I'll try and walk you thru it.

Have a nice day.

Wait wait wait "clearthinker" -- liberals are cannibalizing? Disagreement is one thing. You want to see cannibalization? See NY 23. See Florida Senate. See the right-wing vs. moderate Republican civil war all over this country -- in an already irrelevant party.

Come back to reality.

Nonplussed: you aren't serious are you? Did you read the story in the Washington Post BEFORE the election in Virginia? Did you see how the Obama's threw Deeds under the bus before the election even happened? Did you see how Obama and the Dems stated Deeds just ran a "bad campaign that didn't utilize the President effeciently enough"? All of this BEFORE the election ever happened. Would you not consider this "cannibalizing"? Do you believe the "blue dogs" won't get slapped around IF they don't vote for the Health Care bill? Do you not think the Bamsters won't come out against them at the next election?

clearthinker - Blue Dogs aren't Liberals. Neither are many independents, who in many cases are refugees from the GOP.

no, just want to preserve my freedom from bureacracy, and over micromanagement by people without experience to run my life.

I am a firm believer in democracy and freedom, but I have seen the Democratic party over my lifetime create policy that handcuffs us all, and their well intentioned goals continuously backfire into higher costs, bureacracy, and restriction on our daily lives.

When major citizens of both parties leave New York due to higher taxes, and when the average citizen can't afford to live there because costs are spread down to those at the street level, it concerns me.

When California, whose economy is the equivilent of the 7th largest economy in the world goes bankrupt because of fiscal irresponsibility for decades, it concerns me.

When policy to block oil drilling and refinement to help the environment puts all of us at financial peril because our gasoline costs more because refining is done overseas, and raw product come from overseas, which makes everything we buy retail higher it concerns me.

When unions and private interest gets windfall free money from our government to protect their failed businesses, and the rest of business in the marketplace is not helped it concerns me.

When you blame big business take a look at the policies that help big business but cripple small business and who created those policies. The big lie here is that the Democratic party helps the little guy. If you really take a look at RESULTS you'll see 60 years of bad policy adding up to strangling our economy and restricting our freedoms.

I don't want to support big business. I want the freedom to operate my own business. Most of the policies designed to "help" the little guy, put small businesses out of business altogether, and what we are left with is one monolithic bureacracy trying to "save us".

It is time we go back to some responsibility, self reliance and neighborhood support, and stop asking the gang in DC to take care of us. They don't create anything, don't solve problems, they just add to the mess. Their only job is to protect our borders and provide a fair environment to work and live. From where I sit, they fail at that miserably.

thanks Nonplussed! I too am sick of these nutjobs calling themselves "real Americans" and they should be called out.

Well Said.

Yep, the "real America" BS is one of the sleaziest, most pandering tricks in the wingnut playbook. It's just a ploy to play to the insecurities of small town America by taking a passive aggressive swipe at educated city-dwellers. They try to delegitimize their enemies by making them 2nd class Americans who don't love their country enough or something.

To me it's the purest example of the GOP's race to the bottom (which amazingly they still haven't found), in which they demonize their enemies and support style, slogans and identity over anything resembling honest debate about the issues.

It doesn't get much more "real America" than where I live, a town with 3,000 citizens in the Deep South, and the truth is a lot of people here have very little intellectual curiosity, they're afraid and unsure about the world outside their town borders and morally for better or worse they're about the same as the people in the big cities I've lived in. I know I'm generalizing and I don't mean to be insulting - there are many exceptional people here - but that's just the nature of the culture. People are people, no matter where they live and the more you interact with people different from you, the larger and better defined your world becomes.