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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Mostly I was responding to f-up's enthusiastic assertion of the existing partisanship in American politics, and pointing out the consequences of that. In other words, you can't have it both ways.
To your point - what do the socially moderate republicans run in Washington these days? How popular are Chafee and Snowe in republican circles? Then why should dems be sensitive to intraparty checks and balances when the republicans have been so successful ignoring them?
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ummm, my point was that hard core republicans might give money to the guy who runs against Lieberman- it hurts the Dems both in the Senate and in Nat'l elections.
