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I believe you're confusing life with Dungeons and Dragons. Easy enough mistake to make.

You mentioned exceptions. What do you consider as a fitting example of something that is an exception to this rule?

You're disgusting.

Personally, I'm still making up my mind on whether it's a patina of smarm or a deep-set rot.

Bring 'em back when you're done molesting them.

Democrats really only have one dissident faction, the blue dog democrats, and they are only such on economic issues.

Members of the New Democrat Coalition, an affiliate of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), take moderate or liberal positions on social issues and moderate positions on economic issues and trade. The DLC aims to revitalize and strengthen the Democratic party, while the Blue Dogs emphasize bipartisanship.

Democrats who identify with the Blue Dogs tend to be conservatives, but have more divergent positions on social issues than "New Democrats." Reflecting the group's Southern roots, many Blue Dogs are strong supporters of gun rights and receive high ratings from the National Rifle Association, some have anti-abortion voting records, and some get high ratings from immigration reduction groups. As a caucus, however, the group has never agreed on or taken a position on these issues, and many members favor more socially liberal positions.

On economic issues, Blue Dogs tend to be pro-business and favor limiting public welfare spending, arguing instead for "individual responsibility". They have supported welfare reform as well as the Republican-backed Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005. They have differing positions on trade issues, and include supporters of labor unions, protectionism, and other populist measures. New Democrats tend to favor free trade.

Some moderate or conservative Democrats, such as Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, are members of both the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrat Coalition.

It's possible to be a republican and pro choice, and also to be one pro-life.

There were strong differences between mccain, romney and huckabee

The democratic party has done a better job of purging dissidents, as how they handled lieberman shows.

The reason he lost, is because Republicans insist on continuing to pander to Fundamentalist Christians.

Fundamentalist Christians will have one of two choices; either follow the party anyway, or just not vote (You can be certain they won't be voting Democrat).

it has proved to be a remarkably good tool for the democrats to use in order to put such harsh regulations on the automotive industry. Which effectively ran the industry bankrupt

Not in and of itself. But there was no small number of other controls that got tacked onto those emission standards bills.

I think there's really a lot of overlap between the first and third groups, and they're killing the fiscal conservatives, who in my opinion happen to be the only faction with any potential viability going forward. They should run fast toward libertarians, drop the social agendas and just rebuild as the actual "small government" party. Sadly, that'd probably mean basically forfeiting the next presidential election, at the very least, but as it stands now they're too fractured to compete meaningfully, anyway.

Democrats really only have one dissident faction,