> But doesn't the scary "socialists are bad" meme seem to be falling flat?
> It does to me.
> While the Dems have tried to distance themselves from the socialist tag,
> in this red state anyway, the socialist scare has no traction that I can
> see so it's quite unnecessary.
> The huge Wall Street pay-off really has helped to tamp down the fear of
> socialism in my opinion.
>
> John Thornton
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> shag wrote:
>> actually, the sucky thing about this incident is that, typical of dems,
>> everyone did their best to distance themselves from being a socialist
>> therefore reinforcing the use of red-baiting and condoning the idea that
>> no one in their right mind would want to be or be associated with
>> socialists.
>>
>> in re this being same old same old (discussed on another thread and
>> nothing charles responded to). i don't think this is like other years.
>> the
>> scary socialist meme may have been embraced by fringies years before,
>> but
>> this year, with a supposed moderate republican running, we have the
>> obama
>> is a scary socialist meme front and center as the republican candidate's
>> primary message.
>>
>>
>>> CB:
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>>> Actually, socialists are glad to be identified with spreading the
>>> wealth.
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be funny if Obama wins, and that means the majority are ok
>>> with some "socialism" ?
>>>
>>>
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