November 2008: The Democrats LOSE (thanks to RW corporate DLC losers

[Vitruvius]

by Margaret Kimberley

On Wednesday, November 5, 2008, newspaper headlines will tell us that the Republican presidential candidate has defeated the Democrat. It is generally ill advised to make predictions about an electoral outcome, especially three years in advance. It is less dangerous to do so where the DLC-dominated Democratic Party is concerned. The winner may be Jeb Bush, or it may be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Don’t worry about who the Republican victor will be. Just know that the Democratic Party is once again on the road to Loserville.

Amazingly, the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) is still a force to be reckoned with -- despite the fact that the DLC strategy has kept the House of Representatives in Republican hands for the last ten years, despite the loss of the Senate and two presidential elections. Most losers eventually figure out that they should just shut up and disappear, but not our friends at the DLC. They keep on talking, under the bizarre premise that if they just keep doing what they have been doing they will get a different result. Yes, that is a definition of insanity.

Right after Election Day 2004, Al From, founder of the DLC, told us all who was to blame for John Kerry’s loss. The evildoer was none other than film maker Michael Moore. <SNIP> The problem wasn’t with their candidate, a man who hesitated to fight back when attacked by liars. It wasn’t the man who so muddled his message on Iraq that many voters couldn’t tell how or if his policies would have differed from Bush’s. Michael Moore, who unlike Mr. From played no role in the loser’s campaign, was to blame.

Mr. From said nothing about the vote theft in Ohio, the missing voting machines and discarded provisional ballots. He said nothing about electronic vote fraud. He wouldn’t even admit that he and his friends backed the wrong horse. <SNIP> Nowhere <SNIP> does Al From mention Republican efforts to disenfranchise Democrats. <SNIP> Does the DLC stand for voting rights or is it unwilling to take a stand and speak up for millions of disenfranchised Americans? <SNIP> Mr. From also gets his digs in at Howard Dean. Dean, who like Michael Moore wasn’t the candidate. Dean is still not safe from DLC attacks. From has the gall to lecture Dean with a snide bit of advice. “First do no harm.” Did From ever have similar smart ass words for mega loser Terry McAuliffe? It doesn’t matter that the Democratic plight worsened under former Democratic National Committee Chairman McAuliffe's watch. He was one of From’s pals. Apparently that is all that counts with the DLC clique that elevates losing to a cult status. <SNIP>

The DLC losers in the making have even come up with a foolish name for themselves: national security Democrats. Perhaps they think it will have the same success as “compassionate conservative.” At any rate, the national security Democrats have a strategy that amounts to being a poor man’s Republican. They all think that the invasion of Iraq was a good idea. They won’t say so, but they maintain that Saddam had to go and the absence of WMD was an intelligence problem and not an outright lie. <SNIP> It is hard to imagine. The DLC Democrats catch the lying Republicans red handed and refuse to use the evidence. Pathetic.

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More at http://www.blackcommentator.com/134/134_fr_november_2008_pf.html

P.S: I think Ms. Kimberley is a bit too hard on Kerry, for whom I have great respect, but I agree 100% with her assessment of the DLC. I also think that Mr. Dean will do a great job -- despite DLC sniping -- and that our chances are excellent -- if we get out & work in 06 and 08, and if we manage to do something about those Rethugnican voting machines...

Nevertheless, I think Ms. Kimberley's article is a useful warning of what could happen -- if-and-only-if we LET it happen.

[lyonn]

1. Kerry is making more sense now

than when he was campaigning. What's the deal. During the latest hearings I was impressed. It must be the people directing him during the campaign, like old losing campaign advisors. Same with Gore. Pay attention candidates, try being yourself more often, don't stand at the Grand Canyon and say you'd do the same thing even knowing what you know now, ugh! Kerry was never forceful explaining his objection to the Nam war, so he threw metals, that was no big deal, he was backing many other ex-soldiers that were protesting for good reason. He needed to explain history to those to young to understand what was going on then, so different than Iraq. Oh well.

[Geekscum]

2. It is going to be worse then you think if we lose in 2008

Because we will lose the supreme court. If we lose in 2008 I figure 7 to all 9 justices will have been choosen by a republican at one time or another. If the courts go conservative then we are totally lost.

[Clark Bayh 2008]

3. McCain or Giuliani is ok - Frist cannot be tolerated after Bush