It's Pretty Fucking Simple Why The Dems Who Ran Away From the President Lost

[berni_mccoy]

If you say you're a Democrat but you don't necessarily like the President, or his policies, no one is going to believe that you are going to go back to Washington D.C. and vote against the President's policies or agenda. That simply is, on its face, not believable. A party that runs from its own president during an election year isn't going to be believed by either side when they say this.

Maybe there was a day and an age where that worked. Goldwater Republicans, Dixiecrats, etc.

But that isn't the system we have today.

And if you try to sell it, you'll disenfranchise your own base while looking like a snake oil salesmen to the other side. That should be the lesson learned.

It's pretty fucking simple.

[shenmue]

1. Concern trolls

who never really liked the party anyway...

I am done feeling sorry for people.

[Fred Sanders]

2. "Run away from your twice elected President", must have been really inspiring to the liberal minded.

Run away from your black President while begging black folk to vote for you, WTF?

[Mr Dixon]

4. nailed it

Agreed

[BarackTheVote]

17. Yup n/t

[MoonRiver]

18. +1000

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Bravo

You nailed it!

[marions ghost]

3. A couple of good articles on this topic:

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

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/reality-check-democrats-republicans-sell-lies-better-tell-truth/

"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.

If President Obama were a Republican, Americans wouldn’t be “worried about the economy” because Republicans wouldn’t be shutting up about its successes. And perhaps the saddest part of all of this is that most Americans don’t know about most of the achievements of the Obama administration I just listed. And you know why they don’t know about them? Because Democrats are too weak to stand up and proudly profess that yes, we did all of that.

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."

- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/dear-democratic-party-make-mistake-republicans-didnt-win-lost/#sthash.ipOp4nec.dpuf

[Fred Sanders]

6. Fucking unbelievable strategy....fucking must have been the fucking plan to sabotage Obama, what

else makes any fucking sense? Look at the fucking employment numbers today? Gas prices? The stock market? The deficit and debt?

Fucking ChuckTodd was fucking right about Grimes....

Fuck. And even Democratics bought the "plunging approval" when there was factually no fucking thing...it had to be a plan....now only the black man in the White House stands in the fucking way of Christocorpfukuistan.

I am going to 100% behind the President on every fucking thing he does, every fucking thing, he deserves no less after all this fucking idiocy of strategy amounting to treason and sabotage.

[marions ghost]

8. Yeah "idiotic strategy"...

tho I don't think they were trying to sabotage Obama so much as keep their seats (or get elected), it backfired BIGtime. HISTORIC mistake. The Repugs are ecstatic that they caved. I'm seeing it pretty clearly today. Yeah Obama didn't deserve this--you want to run on the POSITIVES regardless of the spin and attacks.

"Christocorpfukistan." Not an exaggeration Yeah I think we better have BHO's back.

[SmittynMo]

12. Awesome analysis

I agree 100%

[kelliekat44]

21. I will too for now. He has got to stand up to them. nt

[bigbrother05]

24. It didn't work for Al Gore to run away from a blow job

How the hell did they think running away from the guy that saved the economy, rescued the auto industry, and gave millions affordable health care made any sense?

Why on earth would you want to take the advice of the very folks that want to see you fail and hurt the people you are trying to help?

[MoonchildCA]

9. Perfect.

This captures my sentiments, exactly.

[marions ghost]

23. +++

[UTUSN]

5. R#3 & K for, Charles P. PIERCE said it:

[font size=5]"How much worse could it possibly have been for all of them had they stood by the president and his record?"[/font]--Charles P. PIERCE, http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Election_Night_2014

[n2doc]

7. I found this toon to be appropriate

[heaven05]

10. yep

[RobertEarl]

11. It was the third way strategy

They did not want Obama's promise of empowering the people to be a winner.

[Kingofalldems]

13. We need people who are loyal to the party ideals

and not their careers.

[Maedhros]

14. The problem is that voters can't tell what Democratic ideals are anymore.[n/t]

[closeupready]

19. It's simple - the stance between normalcy and whatever the GOP wants.

Which makes the GOP's plan VERY easy to map out - whatever you want, advocate for THAT x 2.

[Maedhros]

25. "The American President" may be a mediocre film, but it's full of spot-on quotes.

Such as this (paraphrased):

Lewis Rothschild: They don't have a choice! (The Republicans are) the only ones doing the talking! People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.

[HereSince1628]

15. Mary Burke ran open armed TOWARD Obama...and LOST

It's really not so fucking simple

[TRoN33]

16. Democrats lost and the bad part?

Democrats in D.C. are seriously considering to drop Progressives and Liberals. It's rephensible that they lost by ran away from Obama then blame it on voters. Those who are considering dropping progressives and liberals need to be fucking kicked out of party. I can't stand them.

I'm not a Democrat anymore but I'm becoming much deeper into left than ever. Im not going to vote for lesser of two evils if Hillary become Democratic front runner because I want my vote to mean something which is to work for Real Americans, the middle class and poor class. I want my vote to prevent killing of Muslims. I want my vote to raise the fuckin taxes on the rich people. I want my vote to push for strictest regulations on wall st. I want my vote to actually help and heal Mother Nature.

Hillary? Forget it. She's the corporationist who will make rich people happy and sleep soundly in nights while it's going to be nightmare for rest of Real Americans.

[LittleBlue]

20. It was simple. The ones who didn't want him were running in competitive races

In strong blue states, there was no political price to be paid. This could have been predicted months ago using basic logic.

Go to 0:51

Although I do recall Hagan putting out an Obama radio advert. She, of course, lost.

[Android3.14]

22. It sure is simple

Because Obama was the best we had, and he doesn;t act like a Democrat.

[Vinca]

27. A caller to the Diane Rehm show said his neighbors, who are black, didn't vote because

they felt the Democratic candidate was disrespectful of the POTUS by wanting nothing to do with him or his policies. From what they said on the show, minority voting was much lower than anticipated and maybe that's one reason. Democrats should have proudly touted all the good things Obama has done. If you're going to lose, at least go down fighting for what the party supposedly believes in.

[MoonRiver]

28. Exactly! Show some integrity for Dog's sake!

[berni_mccoy]

29. True dat.