DISQUS

AMERICAblog: Is it too much to ask Democratic leaders to support Democratic candidates?

  • bumpkis · 1 year ago
    Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

    I don't know about those other two, but Ros-Lehtinen is majorily supported by AIPAC. ($94,000 career 2006) Wasserman Schultz probably knows better than to rock that boat if she wants to keep her seat. Anyone see a gorilla around here?
  • hector · 1 year ago
    Polls in Pennsylvania and nationally show that Obama's otherwise-thoughtful speech last week failed to solve the political problem Wright created. Whites are shifting to Clinton or, in hypothetical general election matchups, to McCain.

    For those voters, Wright is a clear yes or no question. Trying to split the difference, however amiably, as Obama did by rejecting Wright's most inflammatory comments while also sympathetically explaining them and equating them to white frustrations, created a muddle that has reinforced doubts about Obama's convictions and values.
    http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/03/23/...
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    I think it will blow over, and Obama will be our next president. People are tired of it all....and wait 'till gas hits four bucks a gallon and McCain has too many brain farts in the coming months.

    Obama can and will win this thing. I have no doubt.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Racism, however amiable, is still racism no matter if the racist is white, black or whatever.
    No matter the near ubiquitous pundit cant about Rev. Wright's flammability, the reverend's words were not the problem video editing made the remarks appear in the breathless TVboarding of the last two+ weeks.
    HRC, ironically, has become the tar baby with her-own-self and surrogates hobbled by the absurd slime they once happily tossed.
    Carville, the outsider now turned mega-wealthy ultimate insider, looks bereft of reason with his “Judas” remark about Richardson…The NM gov should have accidentally taped his heated Hillary chat and should accidentally release it…
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    Why does anyone think people pay attention to Carville? He might do better to borrow one of his nasty republicon wife's fright wigs. And say where did he get those mega wealthy bucks? Memo to Bilary: We are still waiting for those Tax Returns... tap..tap..tap
  • EdNSted · 1 year ago
    "Is it too much to ask Democratic leaders to support Democratic candidates?

    C'mon Joe. You know it is. Get with the program here. Today's Democratic Party now sports the Lieberman Exception Doctrine. Democrats are no longer required to support Democrats. That's so old school. Today, Democratic primaries should be be seen more as "suggestions of some possible candidates maybe" rather than any kind actual selection process. Likewise, today's Democrats must award key committee chairmanships to non-Democratic winners. Senators Obama and Clinton have both demonstrated that they fully support the Lieberman Exception Doctrine.

    Ned Lamont was so last-century, ya know. This is who the Democrats are today. This is how they earn it. Wake up and smell the coffee!
  • GrantinHouston · 1 year ago
    Allegiance to Israel's neocon party, Likud ,is more important to some AMERICAN Democrats than to their own Democratic party. Republicans are more often than not in full support of Likud, so I can see AIPAC Democrats jumping over to the reich side.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    Yes, GrantinHouston, you may have put your finger on something. but no one ever seems to like to talk about this devious undercurrent and it needs to be brought out into the light of day. Those who want to support the United States should stay in the United States, those who want to support other countries should go there, not remain here as sort of fifth-columnists.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    jumping over to the reich side

    Or, maybe friendly hetero tapping ...It's a thin wall to transit philosophies as the WP's Larry Craig peeps clearly show:
    http://www.blogactive.com/uploaded_images/Pictu...
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    Ah yes.....another proud moment to be a Floridian. Thanks for the heads up. I WILL be calling her office.

    Oy vey.....
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    I called Wassermans office and left a message on an answering machine. I called Chris Van Hollen's office and a very nice staffer answered and apprently they are very concerned about Mrs. Wasserman's republican support as well. They are taking down every call that has been coming in very seriously and they she assured me they are on top of it.
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    OK Let's recapp:

    Wasserman supports three republican candidates up for election in three Florida districts.
    Hillary thinks John McCain is better suited to be president than Obama
    Lieberman is in bed with John McCain, (with is head shoved so far up his *ss that he wants to try for VP on McCain's ticket)

    Am I missing something here?? Or am I in a parallel universe.

    I simply don't get it. No wonder Democrats lose when they should be winning.
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    can we pulease,get rid of these SELF SERVING DINOS ...damn
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    I have a rather ruthlessly John Birch-er fundie crypto-racist family member who doffed his conversational Bush loyalty prom dress once the going got tough in the summer of 2003 for a simple homespun garment with multiparty appeal he thought.
    Any nacent ideas that this guy was moderating crashed last week as he called to laughingly chortle over "the demise of the democratic party" (he still calls it democratic, silly boy) and the terrible things Obama called his white grandmother. I denied the first by saying to this family member that he surely appeared overly interested in a party so poised on the alleged brink and denied the second by saying one of our older family members often employs awkward and archaic modes of speech without intending racism. I told him he was simply repeating the Rethug/Hillary spin I've been hearing on the toob and he insisted he "watched the speech and formed my own opinions".
    Anyway, this guy was more ginned-up than he's been in years...Have we Team Hillary and the DINOs to thank???
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Democrats need to be Democrats. It's not that complicated.
    Agreed. That's why the DNC credentials committee at the convention has got to clean house, throw out Howard Dean and the totalitarians, spit in the face of Republican Corporitism and reclaim the traditonal Democrats' motto: "I don't belong to an organized party, I'm a Democrat."
    Get it?
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    seems simple to me. If elected Democrats wont support Democrats running to unseat Republicans, then those elected Democrats need to become un-elected.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    Yes, ChrisFrom Maine, I think you've put your finger right on it!
  • ericgoldman · 1 year ago
    I don't know, is it too much to ask liberal blogs to support Democratic candidates? Or, if you can't support them, at least refrain from an incessant drumbeat of negativity?

    The Democratic party is swallowing its own tail this election cycle, and I certainly can understand why Florida Democrats are choosing to reserve their political capital for themselves -- this is an anti-incumbent year, and they are distancing themselves from the national party. After all, it's not like the DNC is helping Florida congresspeople, what with refusing to seat Florida delegates and all.

    What I don't understand is, when three Florida Democrats find it necessary to make the same decision, to distance themselves from the national party, that Democrats don't take it as an indication that there is a problem, and then try to fix the problem.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    If the Democratic Party had any intestinal fortitude, I think it would be best served by excising the entire state of Florida from its planning. Just look at the facts, Florida has a miserable record over the last few election cycles. Does anyone really need to be reminded of the DISASTER of the 2000 vote when the republicon crooked mismanagement threw the election to Chimpy, along with the connivance of a Supreme Court which has been under suspicion ever since. Remember who was governor then; remember that the republicons are still in charge and being blamed at least in part for the rediculous situation with democratic delegates with one of the biggest DINOs of all first having agreed to the "rules," and now whining about disenfranchisement because-- all together now "I need those votes."
    It really is beginning to look like the DNC has no balls to put it plainly.
    Thank god I am an Independent, or as Pennsylvania so quaintly puts it No Party. Whatever you want to call it, I will be voting for Obama, despite wrong-headed Ed Rendell, PA's governor supporting the DINO monster bitch!
  • jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago
    It's not too much to ask, however, is it too much to ask Democratic bloggers not to bash Democratic candidates you don't support? Bashing the hell out of one candidate hardly does anything to promote your own candidate. Think about it. If your candidate is as good as you think they are, you needn't do any bashing at all to get your points across.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    Wasserman Schultz was against impeachment and now this. Randi Rhodes needs to quit sucking up to her. She's another "maverick"
  • ahaque · 1 year ago
    If Democratic Congressmen and Senators refuse to support other Democratic candidates against Republican canndidates then they should be kicked out of the party.
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    Well then, jiminportlandoregon, tell us what good there is to write about Hillary Clinton?
    Hmmmmm?