Oh Democratic Party… is there no end to your sucking?
This would be comical if not voting for Democrats was anything other than a de facto vote for Republicans.
A Democratic Senate nominee had to clarify Monday that, contrary to a newly released video of her campaign chairman, she does not actually support “most” of President Barack Obama’s policies.
Natalie Tennant, the West Virginia secretary of state, is running to replace retiring Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). Her campaign is trying to keep some distance from the Obama, who is deeply unpopular in the state. That’s why her campaign had to scramble after a tracking video surfaced showing her campaign chairman Saturday outside a campaign event appearing to say that Tennant supports “most of (Obama’s) policies,” the Charleston Daily Mail reported.
Tennant’s campaign walked back the comments from Allen Tackett, a retired general of the West Virginia National Guard and the campaign chair.
“The general misspoke. Natalie does not support the majority of the president’s policies,” Jenny Donohue, a Tennant spokesperson, told the Daily Mail Monday
I hope Obama enjoys his last two years in office with a Tea Bag controlled House and Senate.
Why the F*** can’t Democrats tell the idiots in their district/state that the R’s don’t give a shit about them? Hammer it and hammer it, what has a Republican ever done for you, unless you’re Dupont or GE or Boeing? They have fought against anything that could help you move out of your pathetic existence. Have the R’s backed social security, unemployment insurance, equal pay for women, equal rights for everyone, a forty hour work week? No. Can anyone out there name ANYTHING that R’s have championed that benefits the rubes that they claim to be working for?
C’mon rustydlls, can you name me one?
PS Sorry for the dangling participle…
The Dems are chickenshit losers with chickenshit loser mentalities. From the President on down to Peter C. Schwartzkopf. Chickens. Afraid to fight. Hate on Republicans, but they have the fucking guts to fight for their whack-ass policies.
We have no spine and no fucking hope of growing one.
To be honest, up until early in his second term, I didn’t agree with most of Obama’s major policies either.
Well, I was worried a week or so back when DL ran the post about the Left retaking control of the Democratic Party that the Party in Delaware might have to change its name.
Now I see that I worried needlessly.
All politics is local. That candidate is trying to keep Jay Rocklefeller’s seat in Democratic hands, (and could, because of the flawed Republican candidate) and do it in a state what went 62-36 for Romney….
We have great apologists for the shitty status quo. I forgot that one. What did Obama give ANY senate candidate to run on ? Nothing.
Don’t say the ACA. Thanks to multiple and ongoing fuck ups, that is, at best, a wash.
The shitty status quo, came about because of 2010. We didn’t fight then, and through gerrymandering, will pay for that mistake far into the future. Therefore, the outside game (inside versus outside) must be enacted to swell anti-republican ranks to overcome that gerrymandering… especially in swing states. The caustic rhetoric from the Reds has only one purpose. Drive their base to the polls. They don’t have the numbers, and hope that Ole Blue doesn’t pour out as they did for Obama. The caustic level will ramp up I predict, as the election-gap-closings begin to come into effect…
The Dem’s need to focus on values and how they are under attack, and how not coming to the aid of those values is basically unpatriotic and unAmerican… By instead, focusing on the insanity of the R candidates, they give Republicans even more of an incentive to go out and vote, just to blacken the eyes of the Dems… instead, we need a wider response…. “How Conservatives Destroyed Americans and how much further they are willing to go to ruin YOU.”
I agree. The Dem’s need to focus on values. The problem is that all of the inside players (with the exception of Elizabeth Warren maybe) watch the 24/7 news channels and look at GOP turnout and think that the GOP’s whack-ass shit is patriotic and popular. How else could you explain John Carney’s ongoing idiocy?
No wonder the wealthy own this country. The poor and middle class handed it to them, saying, “Here, take this, I’m fine.”
(h/t some dkos comment)
If a voter wants someone who opposes the President’s policies most of the time, wouldn’t they just vote Republican? This campaign was almost over already, but now there is no chance Democrats will even turnout. I love it. The Congresswoman should start measuring her Senate office.
Kavips, Cook has called this race likey Republican because the GOP made the best candidate recruitment anywhere in the country in this race. She has crossed the 50% mark in the polls and maintains around a 10 point lead. Congresswoman Capito is running a flawless campaign against a credible challenger who has won statewide. Please explain the flawed candidate line. No one else in the world seems to believe it.