Dear Democratic Party: Make No Mistake About It, Republicans Didn’t Win – You Lost

[Scuba]

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/dear-democratic-party-make-mistake-republicans-didnt-win-lost/

I’m not sure what jackasses controlling the Democratic party decided that they needed to run away from the president, but I hope all their asses are fired. I’ve never been more ashamed to be a Democrat than I was during this election. I’m a fighter; I might lose, but I damn sure won’t lose selling out to fear. I’ll stand by my conviction, what it is I believe in and if I lose, so be it. At the end of the day I lost fighting for my beliefs and staying true to myself. Democrats lost running away from one of the most successful presidents in modern history because they didn’t have the internal fortitude to stand up and fight, proudly informing the American people of all the great things that have been accomplished these last 6 years.

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There’s no way in hell Republicans wouldn’t stand proudly, even arrogantly, next to one of their presidents if they had created over 10 million jobs (and counting) and they were the Commander-in-Chief who found and authorized the killing of the man responsible for nearly 3,000 deaths and the greatest terrorist attack on our nation’s soil. My God, they would be pushing for a national holiday in his name.

Instead, Democrats ran away from him. If these idiots could manage to piece together even one coherent thought to realize something fairly obvious, doing so actually justified their opponents’ propaganda. Because why the hell would any voter that’s torn between two candidates vote for one who essentially agreeing with their opponent’s political rhetoric that the leader of their party has been a failure?

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And it’s like I said to people during this election, when these candidates turned on Obama, it ticked off the Democratic base who are still big fans of the president. Just how the hell were these cowardly Democrats planning to “energize the base” to vote for them, while acting like fools trying to avoid the president’s record that many these voters believed was something these candidates should have been boasting about? One of the many things I’ve learned in my years studying politics is that if a candidate can’t motivate and energize their base during an election, they’re not going to win. And that’s exactly what we saw this year.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. This is what we were bitching about months ago.

Since yesterday I talked to several Old Time Dems,and each one expressed the same feeling. The Rethugs framed the message and painted the optics. The Kenyan in in the White House is bad and anyone who supports him is also bad. Noticed tons of press pieces implying the same. Subtle Racism all the time ever time. Kind of suspected the Hispanic vote would be toast due to the lack of Immigration Reform,and for the young voters,no out reach what so ever. Appeared to me what really was going on was the Elitist Wing of our party didn't give a shit about the old White Guy who wanted some sick sack of shit Bankster from Wall Street put in jail. Just some accountability.

[whereisjustice]

2. Three words - Joni Fucking Ernst... the entire DNC should be fired. But that won't happen

they'll be back begging for money in 3... 2... 1...

[AleksS]

3. Exactly! I'm from Wisconsin

Exactly this:
"There’s no way in hell Republicans wouldn’t stand proudly, even arrogantly, next to one of their presidents if they had created over 10 million jobs (and counting) and they were the Commander-in-Chief who found and authorized the killing of the man responsible for nearly 3,000 deaths and the greatest terrorist attack on our nation’s soil. My God, they would be pushing for a national holiday in his name. "

I'm from Wisconsin. Scott Walker is a goddamn disaster. His record of failure in this state is egregious. By no stretch of the imagination has he achieved one millionth of a millionth of what President Obama has accomplished. But the folks below him on the ticket never stopped shouting his praises from the rooftops. And you know what? They frickin' cleaned up.

I'l say it again: You can't convince people to vote for your party, if you simultaneously tell them the head/most recognizable face of your party is a failure.