Will Democratic Political Operatives Ever Look in the Mirror?

[unrepentant progress]

There will be the usual recriminations, with the Democratic professional political class blaming everyone but themselves. They will blame everyone and everything except the campaigns they ran and the political advice they gave to sitting office holders.

Because it’s never occurred to these assholes that you actually have to earn people’s votes. The de facto slogan of “Democrats, we don’t suck as bad as Republicans” just isn’t cutting it.

Full post (it's not much longer): http://mikethemadbiologist.com/2014/11/05/will-democratic-political-operatives-ever-look-in-the-mirror/

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Of COURSE they look in the mirror--

[unrepentant progress]

3. Hah!

[Autumn]

2. Mike had me at "it’s never occurred to these assholes that you actually have to earn people votes’"

Very good rant, it will be very unpopular here.

[MisterP]

4. who'd make 'em? their corporate backers? the Dem activists who say "I give you my fealty even if

you stuffed my mouth with hacked-up chunks of my own fetal firstborn until I barfed"?

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. I doubt it - to them EVERYONE is fringe - except them

"The Republican Party fears its base. The Democratic Party loathes its base." - David Frum