Red State Stereotype

[opebo]

The Democrats want to be very careful about stereotyping those who live in "red states" because without those states, there will never be a Democrat sitting in the Oval Office.

The Democrats need to reaching out to 'Main Street' not alienating themselves from it. I fear that the out-of-touch far left will do the Democratic Party much harm. They need to return to the sanity of the ideological centre

This is an obviously bad idea - in reaching out to these intolerant religious middle america types, they'll lose both coasts - the real heartland of the country.

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The Democrats want to be very careful about stereotyping those who live in "red states" because without those states, there will never be a Democrat sitting in the Oval Office.

The Democrats need to reaching out to 'Main Street' not alienating themselves from it. I fear that the out-of-touch far left will do the Democratic Party much harm. They need to return to the sanity of the ideological centre

This is an obviously bad idea - in reaching out to these intolerant religious middle america types, they'll lose both coasts - the real heartland of the country.

Clinton believes in God. Do you despise him as well?

[opebo]

The Democrats want to be very careful about stereotyping those who live in "red states" because without those states, there will never be a Democrat sitting in the Oval Office.

The Democrats need to reaching out to 'Main Street' not alienating themselves from it. I fear that the out-of-touch far left will do the Democratic Party much harm. They need to return to the sanity of the ideological centre

This is an obviously bad idea - in reaching out to these intolerant religious middle america types, they'll lose both coasts - the real heartland of the country.

Clinton believes in God. Do you despise him as well?

Well, I like to believe he's pretending.

[English]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe red poppies grew in abundance in the fields of flanders soon after WW1 ended. Something to do with the severe disturbance of the soil and whatnot. Poppies were the first plants to recolonise the area around the trenches. I think that's why poppies are used to remember the dead.

That's it

I thought the Labour party wears some sort of red flower as well?

They do, it's a Red Rose. They used to have the Red Flag, however they ditched it in the early 1980's due to it's links to communism, although back in the 79-83 period the Red Flag was probably more appropriate!

[Brutus]

The Democrats want to be very careful about stereotyping those who live in "red states" because without those states, there will never be a Democrat sitting in the Oval Office.

The Democrats need to reaching out to 'Main Street' not alienating themselves from it. I fear that the out-of-touch far left will do the Democratic Party much harm. They need to return to the sanity of the ideological centre

This is an obviously bad idea - in reaching out to these intolerant religious middle america types, they'll lose both coasts - the real heartland of the country.

Remember opebo, in the aggregate of this last election's red states, Kerry won 43% of the popular vote.

[M]

I am a Jew from Houston Texas, my parents have professional degrees and are quite well educated. We are middle class. Both my parents were born as Dems. I go to Brandeis University, I am typing this message now from my dorm room. By most accounts, I should be a Dem, but I disagree strongly with (among others) the part of their platform that says "little brown and black people in places like Haiti, Cuba, and Iraq should be ruled, raped, tortured, and massacred by brutish thugs, as Islamic and poor countries in general are not ready for democracy".

On Europen antisemitism: among Muslim immigrants this does take the classic, Nazi style form of racial hatred. Most European elites take the more accepted position called anti-Zionism, whose principle tenets are that Jews alone among the nations of the world do not deserve a nation state and, if they have one, should be singled out as deplorable even if they are their region's only democracy; and that the proper government for the Jews of Palestine is a totalitarian dictatorship and/or genocide by terrorist mastermind Yasser Arafat or, following the tragic passing of this true freedom fighter and one of the greaterst Christkiller killers the world has ever known, by the Iran sponsored Islamists. Leftist Israeli writer Amos Oz has summed this up quite neatly, to paraphrase: "In the 30s, European graffiti read 'Jews to Palestine'. Today, it reads 'Jews out of Palestine'. Don't be here, and don't be there. In other words, don't be".

A notable example of this new form of racialist hatred was the Belgian govt's decision two years ago to try foreign leaders for war crimes. This led rise to planned trials of three lowest, most diabolical, most Jew loving leaders in the world, Bush, Blair, and Sharon. These, it will be recalled, supported the removal of the aforementioned Saint Arafat of Nobel and the good, great, noble leader Saddam Hussein who spent his life attempting to slay the fiendish Jew, instead illegally imposing upon their sovereign territories their own repugnant system "consensual democracy", which deprives the governments of their rights to totalitarian government, torture, and the glorious nmassacre of the untermensch. Another good example is the reverent treatment of Yasser of the Righteous Pogrom by the French government, in which doctors repeatedly broke their Hippocratic oath and lied blatantly to the world in order to serve a higher cause: to give honor to Abu Amar, who never swerved from his heavenly purpose of destroying the Elders of Zion by hitting them where they are weakest: their children and loved ones.

[phk]

As long as the religous are fed to loins, its okay.

[J-Mann]

As long as the religous are fed to loins, its okay.

Ah...again with feeding us to the "loins".  Priceless.