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2004-07-15 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Anonymous5089 2004-07-15 4:37:25 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh, sure we do. Gus Hall used to run for president every four years. I think he died a few years back and nobody noticed. Or maybe he just naturally mummified. He was so old, he used to date God's grandmother.

Posted by Fred 2004-07-15 4:51:25 PM|| 2004-07-15 4:51:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 My great great grandparents we're Communists. French-Irish Jewish Atheist Communists who lived on a farm, were facinated by rap, fought in Vietnam, thought Eddie Yost was the greastest second baseman the Sox ever had, and a bunch of other stuff...

Posted by John Fn Kerry 2004-07-15 4:54:57 PM|| 2004-07-15 4:54:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 tried to get on the CPUSA site to check it out (sounds odd, like Fred says, they always put Gus Hall on the ballot, never endorsed a Dem or even anyone from a competing socialist party) cant get on, if this is going around the web, their server is probably toast.

But the article sited includes this nugget

"Next, I discovered that one of Kerry's campaign themes is " Let America be America Again." This slogan was borrowed from a Communist poet, Langston Hughes. This is not common knowledge to the average American."

So Kerrys slogan (which parallels Reagans "Let Poland be Poland") happens to be the same as the title of a Langston Hughes poem. And Hughes was a communist. Ergo this tells us something about Kerrys ideology!!!!

This is analysis on the level of a Michael Moore.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-15 5:01:35 PM|| 2004-07-15 5:01:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Not only did we have a (Stalinist) CPUSA, we also had the Socialist Workers (trotskyites) and the Norman Thomas Socialists - they broke up into two groups - the Democratic Socialists (more less like Euro Socialists) and Social Democrats, USA - AFL-CIO trade unionists with just a hint more ideology - very ANTI-Communist on foreign policy. (yours truly has been personally influenced by SDUSA :) )

There was a break away from the Trotskyites who decided that the USSR not only was on the wrong path, but wasnt socialist, since it was ruled not by the workers but by a "new class" of bureaucrats. Further analysis of the "new class" lead many of these to break not only with Trotskyism, and socialism, but even with liberalism - producing - you guessed it - the original neoconservatives.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-15 5:06:54 PM|| 2004-07-15 5:06:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 note that for the last 40 years or so, since the Norm Thomas Socialists broke up, neither DS nor SDUSA endorsed their own candidates, but both struggled within the Democratic party. DS tending to support McGovern-Dean types, and SDUSA tending to support Scoop Jackson types.
DS was im sure pro-Dean - certain DS type unions
were early supporters of Dean - SDUSA (or whats left of it) was probably pro-Gephardt.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-07-15 5:09:57 PM|| 2004-07-15 5:09:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Tap . . . tap . . . whack!

Darned surprise meter must be busted--it's reading "off scale, low."

Posted by Mike 2004-07-15 5:17:45 PM|| 2004-07-15 5:17:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 These commies never admit to being hard-core reds instead they always use the term 'progressives', which dates back to at least the 1930's.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-15 5:20:55 PM|| 2004-07-15 5:20:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Liberalhawk,

OMG...SPLITTERS!!! I always thought that scene was an impossible exaggeration. Wow! And they don't even endorse their *own* candidates? How is it that their heads don't explode???

Posted by trailing wife 2004-07-15 7:06:18 PM|| 2004-07-15 7:06:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey y'all you missed the best part. The Trotskyite party's 1972 nominee Peter Camejo, is now Nader's VP nominee. It doesn't get better than that. SO which Communists do you prefer? The Trotskyite VP candidate of the Greens, or the Stalinist endorsement of the husband of the billionaire Mozambiqui fruitcake?

Posted by BigEd 2004-07-15 7:26:36 PM|| 2004-07-15 7:26:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The frumpy, dumpy ...billionaire Mozambiqui fruitcake

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-15 7:38:01 PM|| 2004-07-15 7:38:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 It'll change, but right now the Google ads on the right-hand side of the page say:

Help the Democratic Party Win

and

Communist
Shop for Communist. 600+ Merchants.

(Lightning struck outside as I typed that. No, really.)

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-07-15 7:42:16 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-07-15 7:42:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The reason you don't see a communist candidate for president anymore is because they've thrown their lot in with the democrats.....as the best vehicle with which to accomplish their goals.

The democratic party is communist to it's core. Why do the communists need to run a candidate?

Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-07-15 9:40:25 PM|| 2004-07-15 9:40:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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