“The stage was framed by two posters featuring a variety of half-red, half-blue animals – a giraffe, a snail, four penguins of bipartisanship staring skyward – and emphatically no monochrome beasts, and no donkeys or elephants.”

From the opener, they have demonstrated their embrace of bureaucratic excess; surely a single turkey would be the perfect symbol . . . while terms such as “LOSER,” “EGOTIST” or “NARCISSIST” – individually or in any combination thereof – clearly would be far more accurate than “No Labels.”

Obviously the detachment from reality occasioned by heavy drug use continues to affect the “elites.”

And I cannot imagine an easier target than Bloomberg. As soon as he goes national there will be a series of campaign ads showing his horrible excesses in violation of personal liberty in New York City.

While calling these Zeros a flash mob would be an insult to flash mobs, here’s hoping they don’t wonder off the cliff too quickly. ‘Cause for the Epic Stagecraft value alone, I’m stocking up on more popcorn.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46303.html

Looks like Michael Bloomberg has to step it up a notch to compete for being the most detached.

the Democrat version of the Republican Main Street Partnership.(RSMP), a group of RINOS who label themselves as centrists
. It’s just a bunch of politicians that don’t have the backbone to take a stand on issues. They want to be “loved” by everyone.
All in all it sounds like a mental problem to me.

They are called No Labels, under the No Labels label. Who’s on first, what’s on second, and I don’t know is on third. That is why the intellectually challenged, don’t fit anywhere.

the no labels crowd are a bunch of Clintonista’s formerly known as Democrats. The bottom line is they are LIBERALS, just ask Charlie Crist!

The responses to articles like this are so generic that they could be applied to almost every post here.

The problem with politics, Erick, in my opinion, is that there isn’t a good way to express the views of the majority of the people (center-right). Anytime a point of view is expressed that isn’t 100% partison, the person is trashed by people who probably agree 90% with them.

All of the responses here are immature gotcha insults that are more commonly heard from 3rd graders.

Prime Example: Tom Coburn being mocked for saying Pelosi isn’t a bad person.

themselves “Progressives”? When your label has been discredited you look for another label- ieven if the label is “No Labels.”
Perhaps their symbol should be the mule- a cross between a donkey and a horse, or in this case a horse’s ass.

or “I’m an independent thinker”….you are hearing from a liberal who can’t stand to be confronted with what they truely are.

Mor often than not they are the kind of people you will see when you’ve got two big dogs circling each other trying to figure out who is the biggest dog who are whining from the sidelines with their tail between their legs begging said big dogs not to fight.

They can’t stand conflict, they are afraid of their own shadows and to them there is nothing in life worth dying for…as a result they’ve never truly grasped anything worth living for.

They’re a pathetic and directionless bunch who would sell their mother, wife and kids down the river so they don’t have to deal with the life and death struggle we are engaged in and who’s egos are so big they constantly have to pat themselve and each other on the back for how high minded and “above it al”l they are.

I despise these creatures even more than I do our Socialists and Communist enemies because at least I can trust these enemies to do what they say and can predict their behavior and counter them….I HATE being a victim of the no labels squish croud because there is never any certainty….you can’t prepare the board for the ensuing battle and win because these vermin are always tilting the playing board and shifing the ground beneith our feet!

It’s interesting to read these comments. The common energy seems to be extremely negative toward this group of politicos. The TEA PARTY also had it’s intense detractors.
Is this a paradigm that all third party attempts will encounter or is there still a possibility to over throw the two party system with a third?

for a group of smug, sanctimonious, self-satisfied attention whores. The only attention they deserve is the mockery they’re getting.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

to demonstrate my support for the No Labels Movement. I am so excited that Progressives (please don’t call them “Liberals” or “Socialists”) have finally realized that What The American People Want is a squishy group of embarrassed leftists to Become Our Voice in Washington.

By the way, the Tee shirts are plain white with … drumroll… absolutely NOTHING printed on them. I have always wanted a shirt about … Nothing.

No Labels. No Clue. No Problem.

Well, no principles they can afford to defend in public. Which will likely become even more troublesome considering 40% of the American people self-identify as Conservative, and that trend continues to grow.

Logic dictates that the Conservative “label” is a net positive in the current political climate, and looks to be an advantage going forward.

From Wikipedia:

“The jocular word mugwump, noted as early as 1832, is from Algonquian (Natick) mugquomp, “important person, kingpin” (from mugumquomp, “war leader”)[1] implying that they were “sanctimonious” or “holier-than-thou,”[2] in holding themselves aloof from party politics.”

Click the link, it is very interesting as it describes this group to a tee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugwump

As John “Cougar” Mellencamp once sang.

“You gotta’ stand for something,
or you’ll fall, for anything.”

trying to paint themselves as independents and “above politics” when all of them have made their living by playing politics. They are anything BUT independent, being Democrats their entire lives.

A biggie from the not distant past. Nothing changes. Rest assured what comes of this will be the usual leftism, with a little sugar on top.
People “eschew” labels when they wish to obfuscate who they are and what they want, The above was a favorite, along with “pragmatic” of the fabled NY Times. And you know how much they meant it.

are a part of this “No Labels” group.

The Tea Parties had better put extra pressure on GOP Leaders to stay away from this group.

Imagine being in the army and not referencing your weaponry options with labels.

Imagine playing on a sports team and not using labels to reference different positions.

I agree that our politics is becoming increasingly shallow and that we need to dig deeper than 5 second sound bytes. However, the avoidance of labels makes things worse, not better.

What would we be left with? Slogans like “Hope and Change”.

I have enjoyed watching the Dems running around the last few days making the case that we need to raise somebody’s taxes, dammit! The rich, the dead, hell, we don’t care as long as somebody’s taxes go up.

I have enjoyed watching the Dems running around the last few days making the case that we need to raise somebody’s taxes, dammit! The rich, the dead, hell, we don’t care as long as somebody’s taxes go up.

There’s a line in a country song, “You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything”. Apparently the folks who’ll fall for anything have found a new home.

Since the electorate is basiocally split 50-50 with a light edge to Republicans…A group like this could runa Bloomberg…or Trump…or maybe a Lieberman, peel off enough squish Republicrats to throw the election to Obama.

I mean…they ran Democrats as tea party candidates against Republican conservatives in 1010 didn’t they?

It’s fun to make fun of this…and laugh…but let’s keep a weary eye on it…

I can see danger here

I think that about covers it. “Progressives” afraid of being called “Liberal” – “No Labels” afraid of being called “Democrats”. “RINO’s” afraid of being called “Conservatives”. The party of “Know-Nothings” rears its ugly rear.