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Originally Posted by Willravel
They're fucking stupid, and many of them are armed. If they were benign, I wouldn't care, but many of them are turning to domestic terrorism. Basically, the instigating figures—Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, that Savage guy no one on the left talks about for some reason, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and the few others—need to be held legally responsible for inciting violence right along with the wingnuts that carry it out.
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domestic terrorists? does that include me?
seriously folks, what is it that you refuse to see about these groups of people? sure, some of them are out there just for the partisanship, but a larger portion of these folks are angry and tired about not being represented. These are folks who aren't left or right, but somewhere in there and their views and concerns are being totally ignored.
The major political parties are making a huge mistake thinking these people are just on the fringe.
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Centrists dont like personal attacks or disparaging the office of the president or blatant lies or even subtle threats...as are displayed in so many of those signs and expressed in so many of the videos.
They also dont like taking direction from guys like Beck and Limbaugh but its hilarious how so few Republican officials will condemn those guys for their misleading bullshit...or when they do, how they immediately backtrack when their base takes offense.
Seriously, how can any candidate please that extremist base and attract centrists/independents at the same time.....its mixing oil and water.
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I'd be stepping lightly on the basis that you think you're speaking for all centrists. As I said earlier, most of these people out there are not dyed in the wool republicans. They are middle america 'centrists' who have been largely ignored by their elected representatives in the interests of corporate lobbying.