Add Comment

FORMATTING HELP

All Comments Hide marked as read Mark all as read

  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 7 months ago
    I think this is a great idea. And I think that it is has the capability to be more scary for Democrats than for Republicans. I would like a slightly finer granularity in the app - if the split Other into Conservative-Other (Tea Party/Liber.) and Liberal Other (Green/Socialist) then it would be better.

    I think that 'moving the whole country a notch or two towards the right is a viable plan. The reason that Republicans are presenting R-Lite candidates is that they are imitating the 'winners'. If we make more conservatives winners, then we will see a better span of candidates on the conservative side. (I would love the competition to be between the Libertarian, Tea Party, and Repub candidates, for example.)

    Jan
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by megsv 9 years, 7 months ago
    Republican Party Establishment = Democratic Party Establishment...I agree with YourNameGoesHere--support the worthy candidates instead of the political party who just is going to shove down your throat whichever candidate is backed by the banks, corporations, etc...
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 7 months ago
    yes, let's "calm down down between elections"
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
    • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 7 months ago
      Calm between. I am having a hard time getting excited during the elections given most of the candidates. :)
      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
      • Comment hidden by post owner or admin, or due to low comment or member score. View Comment
      • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 7 months ago
        Then you aren't looking closely enough, Ed - in my humble opinion.
        Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
        • Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 9 years, 7 months ago
          I am looking very closely, and what I see is a battle between true conservatives and the "old guard" within the Republican party.

          About a year ago, the RNC called me up asking for money, and I decided I'd had enough. I was tired of a solid candidate winning a primary only to be financially deserted by the RNC during the election. I told them when they begin supporting fiscally conservative candidates (dare I say it... Tea Party - there, I said it!) rather than "Democrat Lite" candidates, we will talk. Until then, I'll donate directly to those candidates that I support since the RNC will not. Later, I received an RNC solicitation mailing, to which I replied back directly to the officer of the RNC (not the fundraising third party address) giving him both my observations and my rationale for my position, and explaining why I would not donate to the RNC in the future until I saw change. I'm not getting calls or mailings from them these days, which I believe speaks volumes.
          Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
          • Posted by $ Susanne 9 years, 7 months ago
            Ready for a laugh? Decades ago, I made a donation (and not a very big one) to a Dem candidate.

            Lo and behold... about 3 months ago, I get this "important mailer" from the DNC (Dumb Nutcase Commies) asking me to "give my opinions to President Potus, er, Obama, because he needs my input to hep form his national policy"...

            Most of them were skewed answers on their multiple stab form (all of them socialistic communist claptrap), but the few that I could check other, I did give him my honest, well thought out advice.

            I forgot how many times I wrote "RESIGN - NOW" on those blanks...

            I'm surprised he hasn't taken my deeply thought out and logical advice he so desperately needed to set policy for the country. Maybe he'll get right on it as soon as he comes in from the links...
            Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
          • Comment hidden by post owner or admin, or due to low comment or member score. View Comment
          • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 7 months ago
            I long ago stopped supporting umbrella organizations. United Way, R Party, BSA national, etc. Why should I let someone else decide what/who to support, I can do that myself. So now, I send my money directly to those people/orgs that I deem worthy of my support. There are a very few organizations that I support as organizations, not as a mechanism for supporting something else. DAV, NRA, WWP, etc. because I support their overall mission.
            Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
    • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 7 months ago
      K, when we were building our house in 2005, we
      had stainless steel screws for the carpenters to use
      when attaching the "trex" (actually, profection)
      recycled plastic planks to the front porch. they
      asked why we were using such expensive screws.
      we answered that we were voting with our $$ --
      longer-lasting, made in the U.S. "But we have to
      drill a pilot hole for every screw," they replied.
      we answered, "so you take longer and get paid
      more."

      they got quiet. -- j

      Reply | Mark as read | Parent | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago
    If it were compulsory to use that app, I would start a vegetable garden, grow a beard, make my own clothes (I could hire out as a clown) and stay home.
    But then, there is no silliness that mankind can't adhere to (Remember pet rocks?)
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  
  • Posted by sstrohm 9 years, 7 months ago
    I've been hearing about this app now for a couple of weeks, but look twice as I have, I am unable to find it or much else about it. Is it, perhaps, an Apple-only app without an Android equivalent?
    Reply | Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink  

FORMATTING HELP

  • Comment hidden. Undo