ahh .. the teabagger name .. you really got to doubt a person's maturity when they throw that term out when talking about politics.
The progressive pledge .. candidate must have a (D) after his name .. that's the only qualification.
Don't be a jerk. Not all progressives are Democrats or vote strictly democratic. If they did, they wouldn't call them progressives - they'd call them democrats. Or dumocrats, democraps, tax-and-spend-socialist-pig-dogs, etc.
I dislike the term teabaggers .. I dislike articles that use the word teabaggers as a derogatory term as if they were being clever.
I was not the one who used progressive pledge and started a thread about it, and if you notice the results 95% of the folks who took this poll thinks progressives are cool and teabaggers are jerks.
I realize that there are many repugs that will only vote for a person with an (R) behind their name. I think however that if you use the word teabagger .. then you are one of those people that really don't care about a candidate other than what party affiliation they have.
I vote for candidates from different party's myself and while I lean to the conservative I also have many liberal and libertarian beliefs as well.
If you substitute libertarian for 1/2 of the reasonable things the so called progressive thread supports then I can support those ... in fact - those progressives should be supporting Ron Paul because he at least supports more of their beliefs the current administration or the top two repug candidates that will be battling it out at the end .... but they won't .. as sadly stated above ... there are too many that will vote for a candidate just because they have a (D) or (R) after their name and not based upon principals of the candidate.
My reply was to your second paragraph. As for the name calling, it is from all sides - have you ever read the comments on Fox New? Calling for the death of the President, and all "libtards" who may support him, as well as anyone who disagrees with them. It scares me to know that so many people have such hatred towards everyone they imagine to have differing beliefs or opinions.
The only item on the FL pledge I could get behind is #2 (and #1 but with a caveat.)
However, every item on BB's pledge is just common-sense, live and let live stuff... peppered with what some consider to be bad words and offensive, unclever derogatory names.
Lastly, you must have seen a different poll than the one I referred to in my first comment. I didn't get to vote on who is cool or who is a jerk.
You use Democraps often enough, i dont see why teabaggers should bother you.
What about #11 and #13? In my mind, those are the only relevant statements in the whole damn list.
EDIT: Corrected.
I did say #1 with a caveat, and I might have added #13 had they left it simply Commitment to downsizing government and the enormous burden upon American families of the USA. But I still think I like the other #13 better.
Oh, 11. I thought you said 1. Anywho, #11 is covered in the First Amendment.
Both lists are stupid.
After reading both lists, I think that is the whole point.
Rigid doctrine is fine if you are running a religion, or a cult, but it is silly if you are running for public office.
This is especially so if your doctrine contains a lot of extremist wacko nonsense, such as stamping out porno or imposing someone's narrow religious beliefs on the whole nation.
See, after meeting enough people who flip out the same way this guy did, I don't think that is the case.
I think this guy is the lefts version of your average sign toting tea partyer. Not terribly well informed, operating on blind belief rather than reason, and prepared to get pissed off about it at a moments notice.
Yep. Sounds like every other law professor I ever met.
Sorry Z3, I went to reply to your comment and I hit the 'baleet' button by mistake. 
It was a Homer Simpson moment 
D-OH!
You power hungry SOB. j/k.
Lets look at this pledge in term of the historical behavior of "progressive" candidates.
1) My intimate relationships are none of your goddam business. Initials:_____
Consistent so far.
2) I don 19t give a shit about the marital vows of others. Initials:_____
Whoops, that whole pro-gray marriage thing is most definitely about that. But I'll chalk that up to the poor ability of the author to articulate their actual point.
3) I will uphold the US Constitution and its separation of church and state, and I particularly note that it never mentions God, Jesus, or the Book of Leviticus. Initials:_____
Except for the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th, those apparantly are unimportant. Ohyeah, and chunks of the first don't matter either.
4) If you think that bigamy, polygamy, or polyandry is an existential threat to our country, get the fuck away from me. Initials:_____
Hmm, not seeing much support for bigamy or polygamy from the left.
5) What you eat, who you bang, how you spend your money, and how you raise your kids is none of my goddam business; I also suspect that Republicans have shitty sex in that all their men are hung like bullfinches and all their women wear petticoats to bed. Initials:_____
The left are the folks rolling out the salt bans, fat bans, soda taxes, etc. They are also the ones mandating vaccines, even pretty debatable ones like the HPV vaccine.
6) If you 19re married to a crack addict, a ne 19er-do-well, a close blood relative, or a raging right-wing asshole, I support your right to a 18quickie divorce. 19 Initials:_____
Or apparently if you are gay "cival unioned" up to another gay person. Seems that most of those laws, supported by the left, allow the union to be dissolved rather painlessly. At least painlessly if it is a fairly balanced two income household where you don't have any joint property without an additional contract between the couple.
7) I won 19t waste taxpayer money proposing, drafting, or defending unconstitutional bullshit laws just to make bigoted troglodytes happy. Initials:_____
The left however will waste taxpayer money on unconstitutional laws for tons of other reasons. Mostly to buy votes.
8) The US Constitution is fine just the way it is. Initials:_____
Except for a good chunk fo the bill of rights, and that interstate commerce clause that the left has to beat to death and play games with unfunded mandates and withholding money to get around.
9) I will do all I can to shield America 19s children from right-wing bedwetting, shameless scare tactics, base bigotry, animus toward others, and marauding teabaggers who seek to prey on their malleable spirits and fill their little minds with crazy batshit teabaggery. Initials:_____
Instead they must be filled with wacky leftist bigotry and lunacy like politically correct speech that is constantly revised, animus towards the religious, corporations, people with money, and the American lifestyle in general.
10) If you 19re a member of the US Armed Forces and you don 19t want to serve alongside your gay fellow Americans, don 19t let that dishonorable discharge hit your sorry ass on the way out, Sally. Initials:_____
Last I checked, even the left wasn't interested in forcing soldiers who don't agree with a policy to receive the equivalent of a low grade felony conviction on their record.
11) I oppose the state-sponsored imposition of evangelical Christianity and all other forms of tyranny and barbarism; I also oppose the use of taxpayer money to 18cure 19 gay people and promote self-loathing, depression, and suicide. Initials:_____
Might be somewhere near a party plank again with this one. Hard to tell.
12) I don 19t give a shit whether you have kids, how many kids you have, or whether you own pets. I would prefer, however, that mega-church morons who think that Moses came down from Mount Vernon and gave George Washington the Declaration of Independence stop breeding altogether. Initials:_____
Hmm, the left is leaning towards the no pets thing. But other than the anti-tea party ranting, probably spectrum safe.
13) Debt sucks ass; I won 19t start any unfunded wars or prescription drug programs; I won 19t give your money to oil companies, CEOs, and fat cats; and I 19ll support paying all the bills the government runs up. Initials:_____
Hmm, his side of the aisle has done everything on this list except pay all the bills, so...
14) I support your right to loathe and relentlessly mock religious bigots, teabaggers, fake patriots, and homophobes, and I join you in those endeavors. Initials:_____
But not the other way around, which is pretty in line with the progressive politics so..
All in all, a pretty poor alignment with his supposed political alignment, and definitely not something anyone form either party could honestly sign.
Also, the guy is a foaming at the mouth dumb ass who is essentially jsut as big an idiot as the people he is screaming about.
I started to make one to go with the other side but so many of the points about gay marriage and homophobes that i gave up.
Regarding #2 - The issue is inequality, not banning other couples from getting married.
#4 - Bigamy and polygamy are illegal. Why would you expect progressives (or anyone) to support it?
Regarding most of the others, it seems you're being disingenuous.
Dismayed and appalled is all I can say in reference to this post. Otherwise, an awe-inspiring rant. This post defaulted to italic too. Sometimes I get those weird character combinations showing up in between words in my propo posts. Otherwise, Raz-00 should be heavily censored by the mods along with with other conservatives Mr. bigT and Mr. thebaron.
those weird charecter combinations are from copying and pasting text from a scripted page.
Can't explain the italics on this thread!?
Gay marriage is illegal in 41 states but we will soon make it legal in all states... After Shariah law is universally applied after the occupation things will change drastically.
Mr. Resurected, you do not know the power of the FF. After the occupation things will change drastically when Shariah law will reverse gay marriage, apply affirmative action only toward Arabs, close open borders, prevent interest bearing loans, destroy dogs and musical instruments and singers. and defund and reverse every progressive idea that we helped temporarily institute only as divide and conquer weapon to overcome the west.
And yet again, you dont know much about what you speak of.. Though judging from every post you make that goes for more then just Shariah law.
You stirred up a shat storm with that one Ms. Maude, 
You're welcome. 
I have been thinking you should change you're name.. I kinda like Maude_Win!
I like it... but Maude Lynne just suits me so well. 
The pledge is gone, the pledge is gone away. Although I'll still live on. But so lonely I'll be because I never saw the full pledge. Some PR for Madville so the FF word can get out. And more reasons why neocons like Mr. raz-00 should be banned from Madville.
Maude_Lynne
I would be more likely to vote for a candidate that signed this pledge - unless my "lying-douchebag alarm" (patent pending) went off.