Friday, October 23, 2009
Politics / Woods Democrats Play the Blame Game: It's More Fun Than Crying
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM
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It seems fashionable to blame everything on ACORN, Czars and Fox News.
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Seriously, Braisted got it right. We had a lousy candidate. I got a call from the DSCC the other night asking me to consider a donation of $1,000 and when I picked my jaw off the floor I let the guy on the telephone know what I thought of that idea. (Yes, I know the DSCC is not the same as TN state races but the principle is the same ...)
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It's too easy to blame the candidate, SB. Have you not noticed the legislature is filled with hillbilly nitwits? They win their elections. Why couldn't Ty Cobb win his?
Why do you think Ty Cobb didn't win? I think both candidates were the same on positions but Pat Marsh was older, knew more people, and just quietly kept being a good, all-round guy. Even though he probably agrees with the Right to Life, he's now not beholding to them.
I, for one, support human cloning. Of organs, etc., that is. If it helps us end some terrible disease, it's a good idea.
The Tennessee Democratic Party assumed that everyone in District 62 is an idiot and would fall for their stupid attacks on Marsh.
Wrong.
"...the ad may have turned off Democrats, causing them to cross over in disgust to vote for Marsh."
The anti-Marsh ad was awful. But so was the anti-Cobb ad. But what's the evidence to support the above claim?
Also, I had to look up the Green Goblin to see who that is, but the comparison to Bill Fletcher still escapes me. Perhaps you could amplify.
It's too easy to blame the candidate, SB. Have you not noticed the legislature is filled with hillbilly nitwits? They win their elections. Why couldn't Ty Cobb win his?
I dunno, maybe the people of Dist. 62 are not, as OG Ben says, all idiots. Maybe not all hillbilly nitwits are the same. You have to blame the candidate because that's how people vote.
As I stated at my blog, Cobb certainly didn't excite me, or make me want to spend my time making phone calls and knocking on doors as I was repeatedly asked to do by the TNDP. No, I was not going to spend time away from my family to campaign for a candidate who shared none of my beliefs on important issues like choice. If you can't excite the activist base how do you expect to excite the voter?
This is not just a problem with the TNDP, it's a problem with the national Democratic Party too. Everyone can see that the biggest stumbling blocks for getting healthcare reform passed in the U.S. Senate are Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln--two Democrats. Would more progressive Democrats have won in Arkansas and Louisiana? I don't know.
I do know that Democrats can't keep telling us to vote for whatever candidate they give us so that we can have a majority, and then when we do that and *still* can't get anything done, they tell us the problem is that we need more Democrats for a "super majority." And then when we do that, and we STILL can't get our agenda passed, they tell us, well, we just need MORE Democrats. (Yes I got a call from the DSCC this week telling me that.)
I mean come on. Something's not right there.
