GD is 'officially' a cesspool

[matcom]

sorry folks but the threads in GD have sunk to a NEW LOW.

i know Clarkies (and others) are dissapointed in Gore's endorsement of Dean but now YOU ARE TRASHING GORE???

disgusting.

fucking disgusting.

:puke:

[GOPisEvil]

1. Ugh...instead of wallowing in trashing Gore...

...why not use that energy to POSITIVELY boost YOUR candidate?

But no....let's drop to the lowest common denominator. Let's let the disruptors set the agenda and discussion topics.

The primaries and convention can't get here fast enough...:eyes:

[Richardo]

19. I'm hip, my brother...

It's an endorsement, not an appointment. And even the media are focusing more on what it means for former running-mate Joe Lieberman than anyone else.

I'm still working the precincts and phones for my guy until I hear a concession speech.

In the meantime: *puts fingers in ears* "LA LA LA LA LA LA I-can't-hear-you LA LA LA LA" :-)

[Kamika]

2. they are overreacting

So are the Deanies.. this Gore thing doesn't mean asmuch as they think

[trumad]

3. It's amazing

I'm a huge Clark fan but I also dig the other canidates.... But God Damn...To diss Big Al cause he didn't endorse your guy is infantile!

[FlaGranny]

21. Infantile seems to be the rule

for participating in candidate threads.

[Nlighten1]

4. all this in-fighting

about candidates is getting old.

[rbnyc]

5. a NEW low---man, that took work!

I've been too busy duking it out in P&C and haven't been in GD since sometime last night, but I could see where it was going. :(

[GOPisEvil]

8. Allow me to summarize

1. WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH....Gore didn't endorse my candidate, so he's a traitor!!

2. Gore's announcement will divide us and lead to Bush victory (guess who is posting this kind of crap :eyes: )

About 20 different variations on those two themes make up GD right now.

[GalleryGod]

42. How About Mine: Gore's A WHORE! Has A Certain Ring to it?

See ya' in '05, Pal!:yourock:

[unfrigginreal]

6. Yep

The "I know what's best for you" crowd show themselves as the "I want what's best for me."

[JohnKleeb]

7. officially? sigh its always been

and I agree, Gore not need to trashed for his endorsement.

[soleft]

9. I've been going through the GD archives of Summer of 02

Very interesting.

It was between Gore and Kerry then, and there were many trashing Gore back then.

I could only find one thread so far that even mentioned Dean - I'm looking for the first mention of Dean on DU. This is the first major thread I've found so far.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=33096&forum=DCForumID35&archive=yes

[Khephra]

28. hehehe I sure didn't like my first exposure to Dean

khephra (35840 posts)
Jul-21-02, 11:45 AM (ET)
Reply to post #5
8. This was my first exposure to Dean
I don't know if this is his usual "appearance" or if I was hyped for more because of the comments made here, but count me as being happy he's a Democrat but unwilling to support him as President.
I'm still a Kerry man.


khephra (35840 posts)
Jul-21-02, 12:45 PM (ET)
Reply to post #18
19. But the problem is that just about every other Democrat has
been critical of the war on MTP, and since the "Bush Knew" fiasco there hasn't been any backlash from speaking out.
One of my requirements for anyone running for President is that they speak out against the war, or at least the direction the war has taken. Dean failed that test.

Like I said above, I'm glad he's on our team, but he's not going to get my vote in a primary.

THAT IS TOO FUNNY!!!

:evilgrin:

That should teach people that I can change my opinion, even radically.

[soleft]

29. I know, that totally cracked me up

[everythingsxen]

10. I ain't trashin nobody!

In fact.. I avoid GD almost entirely.

I support Clark, no more, no less. I don't care who wins the nomination though, however I would like it to be Clark.

[underpants]

11. I actually went in there and looked I knew better today

Clark is almost surely the VP choice whether it is Dean or Kerry or well that pretty much it, Gephart isn't really a consideration is he? Edwards jumped the gun by running this time.

Anyway I have some unbelieveable W pictures I'm about to post for captioning.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. OuTraGeous!?!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=855883&mesg_id=855883

[Maeve]

16. Repost that one down here

It's not really GD, but it IS good Lounge fun!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

18. It's done been moved down.

[displacedtexan]

13. The repetition of Rightwing talking points disgusts me the most!

"Gore lost." (thanks to the supremes)
"Bush won." (thanks to the supremems)
"Gore's campaign was weak." (thanks to the media telling us so)


Posters in GD are proof that RW media repetition works. The tiny slivers of truth in the oft-repeated above statements are buried by the millions of RW-spun headlines.

Never forget: Gore won! And what makes anyone believe that more people support the freak monkey now than they did in 2000? The 3 million out-of-work? The military voters? The repentent Greens? The soon-to-retire Baby Boomers?

My only fear is that Dems will stay home on election day out of spite.

[izzie]

14. I have never trashed any Dem I did think Gore went to far Right

in 2000 and it really was a pesty thing for me but even if I am listed as Green and believe Nadar was right, hard to tell the differece in Gore and Bush, I vote for Gore. I knew you could not split the left and win. Also Bush had moved to the left and would not 'rule' that way.I think Gore went with Clinton, who I like, but he is very in the center on some things, like NAFTA which he was going to do something with but ended up just signing the thing, It could have been re-done to help workers more.I do not think trying to run for the under de-clared middle is good planning. They vote for so many odd things and usually do not have basic beliefs but just one subject things to vote on.

[Nihil]

15. Use the new features

Personally, I find the candidate slag-fests irritatingly childish.
I always have (regardless of who endorses who) and am delighted
with the new "Ignore thread" button.

Like the advice with the Freepers: don't feed the trolls and don't go
upsetting yourself over them. Just click "Hide this thread".

Nihil

[KG]

17. disgusting, yes

but hardly surprising.

[PVnRT]

20. Isn't it though?

I frankly wouldn't have a problem with whoever the President-In-Exile endorsed, in fact, I might have taken another look at that candidate. As it is, I'm happy it's Dean.

And for the record, I like Clark. Dean/Clark would be fucking unstoppable.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

22. I got "lectured" yesterday by one of those idiots...

Who came to lurk here that I didn't start a certain thread there. He said it wasn't appropriate for the lounge. I refuse to go to GD, unless someone puts up a link to a thread over there. God, some people suck.
Duckie

[hackwriter]

23. Who needs Republicans?

It seems to me we Democrats are doing a good enough job trashing ourselves. :eyes:

[GregW]

25. Umm ... actually ...

I think most of the trashers ARE republicans. My guess is that DU is now about 40% moles and disruptors.

[goobergunch]

24. I've been nuking most of those threads

I now officially :loveya: elad for the "Hide Thread" feature!

[Le Taz Hot]

26. Sanctuary! I need sanctuary!

I need some Zomby coffee now! B-)

[LynneSin]

27. Matcom, that's why I'm a lounge rat

I figured if there is something important in the GD forums, someone will post a heads-up message here and then I'll go check it out.

:hug:

[Rowdyboy]

30. As a strong Clark supporter

I've had nothing to say but positive things about Dean and Gore. You can check with Slinkerwink-I believe she'll back me us. Please quit using that damn broad paint brush when its just not true of even the majority of Clark supporters.

[slinkerwink]

39. I'm backing you up....

earlier today, it was the majority of Clark supporters that said we deserved the endorsement, and now, it's the new Clark supporters (armed with RW talking points) that have disrupted the good vibe earlier. I hate to say this, but it's the few that are the loudest disrupters in any campaign on this website.

[JVS]

31. They probably trashed Gore in 2000 as well.

But they claim to represent swing voters and consequently shit gold.

[hlthe2b]

32. Sometimes I think we let the REPUGS play us like puppets...

THEY leak that the Repugs WANT DEAN and all of a sudden we start attacking Dean. THEY leak that Gore's endorsement "short circuits" the democratic process, and WE start echoing that. THEY put out miscellaneous disinformation on Dean, Kerry, CLark, you name it... And we devour it, like a starving man.


We just have to be smarter than them and stop letting them manipulate us, our primaries, our nomination process, our election! That won't happen from attacking each other.

[trof]

33. "We have met the enemy and it is...GD"?

[lpbk2713]

34. Rush Pimplebutt must be ecstatic upon reading this......... n/t.

[elcondor]

35. Speaking as a person leaning towards Clark

While I am not pleased with Gore's endorsement, I will never trash him for it. Gore will always be the first candidate I supported whole-heartedly and something like one endorsement won't change that. I agree, though, some people are getting ridiculous--going back to the 2000 campaign and how Gore "mismanaged" that. Um, hello? I thought we had already established that no matter how good or bad he ran his campaign, Bush would have somehow weasled his way into the Oval Office.

[bicentennial_baby]

36. How's that broad brush?

Gimme a break...:eyes:

[matcom]

38. your right. i'm sorry

now please point me to all the posts you have asking the lunatics to stop :eyes:

[DS1]

37. I have seen the cesspool, and it is us

Raving tryants in GD, SEEers in the Meeting Room, lunatics in the Lounge, sigh.

[kayleybeth]

40. I'm a Clark supporter

and I wasn't at all disappointed that Gore endorsed Dean. Al Gore is great and I'm sure his endorsement won't hurt, but I'm not sure how much it will help, under the circumstances. I certainly don't see the endorsement hurting any of the other candidates except for Lieberman, obviously.

I am, however, disappointed that the pundits and a lot of Dean people on DU seem to think this ties up a Dean nomination with a neat little bow, even though there has not been a single vote yet cast.

I did not see the coverage of the official endorsement, but from what I've read, apparently Gore said the other candidates should stop bashing Dean and unite behind him (this is second hand info, so I could be wrong about this). That's what the other DUers seemed to be pissed off about, but I didn't read that as trashing Gore. Maybe I missed something.

Anyway, FWIW, congrats on the endorsement, Dean's basically a good guy and he worked hard for it.

[GalleryGod]

44. STICK with CLARK: He Won't Disappoint!

[Cascadian]

41. It makes me wonder.....

how many of those people who are trashing Gore supported him in 2000?


John

[VermontDem2004]

43. Argh!!!!!!!!

I just ventured over there. :argh: