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Are Democrats too scared of losing to win?

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 8:58am.

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By Steven C. Day

According to the generally dependable Nate Silver, Democrats have a lot to worry about in 2010. Not only does he predict that the party will lose seats in Congress, he sees some risk, small but not trivial, that the GOP could actually win back the House. But what's particularly interesting is the reason for Silver's pessimism: it seems that there's an enthusiasm gap between the two parties -- one that favors the Republicans. Right now, Republican voters are much more motivated than Democratic voters.

So, what is the Democrats' response? Will they, at long last, start playing to the base a little? Perhaps even start aggressively pushing liberal priorities in an effort to fire up the troops? Or at a very minimum, will they at least start feeding the base a little red meat by raising holy hell over GOP lies and obstructionism?

That would be a no.

Quite to the contrary, it would seem that Obama & Co. have chosen this very moment to declare war on the Democratic Party's progressive base by abandoning their support for a public option in the healthcare reform bill. Yeah, that's the ticket: continue to suck up to a fraud such as Chuck Grassley, who, not satisfied with merely endorsing the "death panels" lie, has also taken to hawking books for ultra-nut Glenn Beck. Or how about throwing the entire progressive base under the bus so as to please Kent Conrad as he continues to undercut efforts at real reform?

This has gone far beyond pathetic and all the way to pathological. Establishment Democrats have become so terrified of being painted as liberals, they continue to rub their most dependable supporters' faces in it even though doing so may well lead them to defeat.

It's really that simple: Democrats have become too scared of losing to win.

 

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Submitted by Start Loving on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 10:31am.
Democrats are the problem? YES! But which ones! For once it is NOT the Democrats in Washington DC. SOME of them are THE ONLY DEMOCRATS STILL STANDING. We-the-sheeple-DEMOCRATS are the failure; unlike we-the-Mongol-hordes Republican Mob. [When will writers of your capability find the courage to point the finger where it can do some good - at we-the-sheeple?]
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Are Democrats too scared...

Submitted by chanty01 on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 7:12pm.
It's more than three years until the next presidential election; a while until mid-terms. A lot COULD change, but I'm among those who don't have a lot of hope. Never a supporter of Obama until the general election, I still hoped for the best when I cast my vote. I'm afraid the Republicans will come roaring back in the next few elections. This will not be because the majority of the country prefers the GOP. It will happen because the Republicans will maintain their die-hard base and supporters. Democrats and independents will scatter to the four winds: voting for third parties or not voting at all because they have been so badly let down by the party they elected for change.
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