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The word "DINO" is rarely used by liberals!
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Posted on 04/29/2014 1:56:57 PM PDT by entropy12

To entertain myself, I will drop in to some of the liberal web sites such as DU, Politico etc.

I have observed viewpoints from extreme left to not so extreme left to almost left of center. But rarely, if ever, I have seen the word DINO thrown around.

Actually there are more registered democrats than republicans in the country. And democrats are a more diverse conglomeration ranging from rich white liberals, blue collar, blacks, Hispanics, militant feminists, recent immigrants, yuppies, Muslims, welfare dependents, etc.

Yet, it is rare for one democrat to turn on another. Whereas I see the word RINO used constantly. Whatever happened to Reagan's 11th commandment (or was it Buckley's commandment)?

On conservative blog sites such as FR, what I see is we dislike more candidates than we like by a ratio of 10:1. I wonder if this is a smart policy.


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To entertain myself, I will drop in to some of the liberal web sites such as DU, Politico etc.

I have observed viewpoints from extreme left to not so extreme left to almost left of center. But rarely, if ever, I have seen the word DINO thrown around.

Actually there are more registered democrats than republicans in the country. And democrats are a more diverse conglomeration ranging from rich white liberals, blue collar, blacks, Hispanics, militant feminists, recent immigrants, yuppies, Muslims, welfare dependents, etc.

Yet, it is rare for one democrat to turn on another. Whereas I see the word RINO used constantly. Whatever happened to Reagan's 11th commandment (or was it Buckley's commandment)?

On conservative blog sites such as FR, what I see is we dislike more candidates than we like by a ratio of 10:1. I wonder if this is a smart policy.

1 posted on 04/29/2014 1:56:57 PM PDT by entropy12
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To: entropy12

That’s because they all believe that government is a money spigot. They’re only disagreement is whose pocket it goes into.


2 posted on 04/29/2014 1:58:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: entropy12

It is because the Demo-rats have mastered Cronyism....


3 posted on 04/29/2014 2:00:36 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: entropy12

Good. To use it makes one seem simple minded. They should stop altogether.


4 posted on 04/29/2014 2:04:31 PM PDT by DallasSun
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To: entropy12

I remember several years ago I had to ask here what DU was. I had no idea. It didn’t take long for fellow freepers to educate me about what a vile place it was.


5 posted on 04/29/2014 2:04:48 PM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: entropy12
The Democrats have gone hard left. Most are Progressive Socialists and the JFK Democrats are about gone.

The Democrats and the Mainstream Press have done a good job of painting the Republicans as extremist while they've been going to the extreme left themselves.

Right now the Democrats ideal is for children is to be high on pot and having homosexual sex. And if they stray into heterosexual sex, the Democrats can absolve them with their sacrament of abortion payed at the taxpayers expense.

6 posted on 04/29/2014 2:11:34 PM PDT by sr4402
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To: entropy12

They rarely break ranks or leave party line.

Our party line of GOPe is perverted and twisted (not in public or party interest)

I recall Obama attacking Lieberman on Senate floor because he was rebuffing him on something, possibly trying to help Hillary against him in 2008.


7 posted on 04/29/2014 2:14:11 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: entropy12

How often does a Rat come across the aisle to help out the Republicans on an issue? I mean when it really counts, not when their vote won’t make a difference.


8 posted on 04/29/2014 2:16:47 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: entropy12

That’s because they purge their party of any who don’t conform to their group think ideology..................


9 posted on 04/29/2014 2:17:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Zell Miller was a Democrat who used to be held up as an example.

And Joe Lieberman was run out of his own party.

Didn’t Ed Koch endorse GW Bush in 2004?


10 posted on 04/29/2014 2:20:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: entropy12

another word you’ll never hear anyone call a democrat is “hypocrite”.


11 posted on 04/29/2014 2:22:15 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: shalom aleichem

“Our party line of GOPe is perverted and twisted (not in public or party interest)”

The entire Dim Party is perverted and twisted , and it is the party line. In other words, it’s homo-genous.


12 posted on 04/29/2014 2:23:07 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: entropy12

Down with Tyranny is a good blog where they bash any Democrat to the right of Mao. Sometimes there is dissent on DU Underground on immigration.

https://twitter.com/repjohnbarrow/status/343016848138309632

@repjohnbarrow- Earlier today someone suggested Democrats use @SenatorSessions words as an ad. Cowardly bigots like Barrow is why they can’t


13 posted on 04/29/2014 2:24:01 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: entropy12

The last passable “moderates” were run out in 2010 after they voted for Obamacare with some “promise” that abortion would not be part of it.

There hasn’t been a conservative Dem at the national level in years.


14 posted on 04/29/2014 2:24:34 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: entropy12

They instead called Lieberman everything else when he supported Bush in the Iraq war, which most Democrats voted in favor of and then said they were against. DINO is too polite a term for them.


15 posted on 04/29/2014 2:24:56 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: entropy12
I see the word RINO used constantly. Whatever happened to Reagan's 11th commandment.

A RINO is just another democrat, so it doesn't apply.

16 posted on 04/29/2014 2:25:45 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: entropy12

Of course “DINO” is not used.

RINO is used to describe Republicans without conservative principals.

Democrats have no principals to be without.

The Democrat Party is just about grabbing all you can or causing harm to those you don’t like.


17 posted on 04/29/2014 2:26:48 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: entropy12
If we'd had the Internet a generation ago, they could have used the phrase back then. They were a very divided party back then. But most of the old New Deal/Fair Deal economically liberal/socially conservatives in the Northern states lost in primaries in the Seventies or have retired since. In the South, the old Dixiecrats hung around until the Eighties or even the Nineties, but they're also gone now. Democrats are now the more united and disciplined political party -- something they never were, from the days of Jefferson and Jackson to those of Kennedy and Carter.

Ironically, it may be the very patchwork structure of the party that makes such cohesion and control possible. There's no overall vision or philosophy: each group wants something. It's easier for members of different racial or ethnic or economic or ideological factions to get together to vote for each other's pet projects than it would be if some factions were opposed on principle to more government, more taxation, and more spending.

18 posted on 04/29/2014 2:28:20 PM PDT by x
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To: entropy12

Democrats are NOT a more diverse party. Democrats are white liberal elites propped up victim groups they give money our money to...


19 posted on 04/29/2014 2:31:31 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Donald Sterling is a typical white liberal elite democrat - New York Times won't share that truth.)
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To: entropy12

The late, great radio host Terry Anderson used to talk about this. Democrats give their base just what it wants. Republicans, on the other hand, seem to look down on their base and work against them. Pushing amnesty, for instance.


20 posted on 04/29/2014 2:32:52 PM PDT by Nea Wood (When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.-Sowell)
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