http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/06/20/theres-an-app-for-that Comments On: There's an App for That by Goldy en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Goldy]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:14:11 -0700 The Stranger
She ran twice against a popular incumbent alleged serial-killer-catcher in a district Democrats have never won, when no other Dem had the balls, and is despised for losing (even as one of her opponents, who also lost to Reichert, is embraced as the party favorite). And the policies and values she unabashedly embraces are the policies and values of the Democratic Party as a whole. There is absolutely nothing radical about her.

And yet there are people here in this thread and within the party hierarchy who would have you believe Darcy is some kind of fringe lunatic.

What I am saying is that if Darcy makes it through the primary it will be because she managed to connect with Democratic primary voters better than her opponents. But given the angry rhetoric spewed at her, I wonder if some people can accept that?
Posted by Goldy]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:10:47 -0700 The Stranger
There is no squishy middle between Rs and establishment Ds.
Posted by anon1256]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:20:37 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Cassette tape fan]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:22:36 -0700 The Stranger Posted by malcolmxy]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:00:10 -0700 The Stranger
Of course, you'd have to stop buying gasoline and all other petroleum based products, and give up banking altogether (especially now that hedge funds have moved all their support from the DNP to the GOP), but still, it's an absolutely great idea.

I hope they make that app. I'd at least get it for entertainment value.
Posted by malcolmxy]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:58:56 -0700 The Stranger Posted by gloomy gus]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:44:17 -0700 The Stranger So should she be the Democratic nominee, I hope the Democratic Darcy haters are ready to swallow their pride and do what's best for the party, the district, and the nation, and get behind her like they would have their preferred candidate, rather than sabotaging her for the sake of a hearty "I told you so."
Well, obviously - but have you considered whether baselessly accusing those who are not currently rooting for her of sexist motives helps to make this happen?

For that matter, where the heck do you get off imputing intentions of sabotage? That's quite a charge to make with nothing to back it up. And, again, making it for no good reason just adds to bitterness, and has the potential to make it harder for people to come together after the primaries according to your (and my) desires.
Posted by Warren Terra]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:07:59 -0700 The Stranger So should she be the Democratic nominee, I hope the Democratic Darcy haters are ready to swallow their pride and do what's best for the party, the district, and the nation, and get behind her like they would have their preferred candidate, rather than sabotaging her for the sake of a hearty "I told you so."I agree! However, it's not the Democrats that she needs to worry about, and it's not the 30% that will never vote Democratic even if one of Hitler's clones is the Republican. It's that squishy 40% in the middle that will make the different win or lose, and it's how her appearance in Rhode Island will play out with those folks. That may not be "fair", but it's the difference between a campaigner and an also-ran in a swing district.
Posted by Teslick]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:21:35 -0700 The Stranger What's the magic number of defeats?

Three.

I'd say if she's loses this time around, she probably shouldn't run again.

That said, if she does make it through the primary to the general election, I want to make it clear that it won't be because she cheated. It won't be because she outspent her opponents. And it won't because the powers that be paved the way for her. It will be because she got more primary votes than her Democratic opponents.

So should she be the Democratic nominee, I hope the Democratic Darcy haters are ready to swallow their pride and do what's best for the party, the district, and the nation, and get behind her like they would have their preferred candidate, rather than sabotaging her for the sake of a hearty "I told you so."
Posted by Goldy]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:01:19 -0700 The Stranger
Again, she is a good organizer, but she needs some, any elective experience. She is starting off as usual.
Posted by Teslick]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:51:00 -0700 The Stranger
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Posted by 8Way]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:46:53 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Madame Chintoa]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:17:27 -0700 The Stranger new seems to matter.

An you might find this amusing as an Apple fan, Goldy: when there were discussions of a Boycott Glen Beck iPhone App, one of the concerns was that Apple was extremely unlikely to allow it into the App Store.
Posted by Warren Terra]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:39:42 -0700 The Stranger Posted by teve]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:22:04 -0700 The Stranger
This goes back to your previous post, which you helpfully hyperlinked. In that post, you linked to a post by The Stranger's Dominic Holden, and in your link you used the word "hectoring", which Dominic had used - and which only Dominic had used. It didn't appear in the post Dominic linked to and talked about - but it was useful for you to quote that word, because it helped you to claim that people skeptical of running Ms. Burner for a third time after she lost the first time and then underperformed disastrously the second time were sexist neanderthals committed to portraying Ms. Burner as a screeching termagent.

Similarly, in this post you claim that "her opponents attempt to manufacture controversy over her call for progressives to stand with women". Again, few things could be farther from the truth. Nobody (worth listening to) in the comment threads either here at Slog or in the original linked post at Balloon Juice made a criticism remotely like this. People criticized Ms. Burner's oratorical skills, asked whether she was selecting the most politically effective subjects to emphasize and policies to promote, pointed out her disappointing track record as a candidate, and asked why given all of this she receives such huge amounts of attention and displays of affection from a large part of the national progressive movement that seems determined to disappear up its own fundament. But no-one (of significance) questioned for a moment the rightness as a policy of standing with women, on abortion or on any other issue.

When faced with progressives who happen to agree with you (and, indeed, with Ms. Burner) substantively but happen not to believe Ms. Burner is a promising candidate for elected office ready to face the voters, you have launched a seemingly unrelenting campaign to portray these people as being woman-hating fiends determined to drag us back to the twelfth century. Frankly, by doing so, all you accomplish is to embarrass yourself and decrease your credibility.
Posted by Warren Terra]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:46:43 -0700 The Stranger
;)
Posted by pissy mcslogbot]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:30:39 -0700 The Stranger
Grow up, Goldy. You don't have to have everyone agree with you to be right, so just stop wanting that, okay? (And don't bother denying that. People who don't care don't keep revisiting arguments where their position proved to be unpopular, at least not when those arguments were trivial, which is the case with Burner's Providence speech.)
Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:18:48 -0700 The Stranger Posted by gloomy gus]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:09:46 -0700 The Stranger