Lamont Victory Disaster For Democrats (?)

[Meeker Morgan]

OK it's from a right wing site, but is Cokie Roberts quoted correctly?

What about this?

Cokie Roberts Shocks George Stephanopoulos: Lamont Victory Disaster For Democrats

http://newsbusters.org/node/6796

Stephanopoulos looked stunned, and asked: “Disaster for the Democratic Party? Why?” Roberts elaborated:

Yes, I do because I think, first of all, that pushing the party to the left, which is what's likely to happen, is pushing the party to the position from which it traditionally loses, and…in presidential elections but also it will send a signal to everybody in the Senate, watch out, the only smart thing to do here is play to your base, and then what that means is that your legislation becomes a mess, which it already is but even more of a mess, and you get…So you get just a total chaos.

[Atman]

1. I'm tired of stinking-rich out-of-touch pundits telling me what to think

Shut the fuck up, Cokie. You're about as republican as the rest of them. You're in that Elite Club of Bush's, the people who earn more money off their interest in a month than most Americans make in a year. You are completely out of touch, and are just parroting the same old tired crap all you rich bastards are saying. If only the lowly working class Americans would accept that Republican policies are their savior then they'll be great democrats.

Just shut the bloody fuck up, Cokie.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Well, I don't buy that assessment much, however

I will say that it will be a bad thing if Lieberman is elected as an Independent. Very embarassing and it would be damaging to the progressive movement.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Pure garbage

Hey Cokie Roberts see that goat over there. It is no wearing and diapers. :rofl:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. I don't disagree with your assessment, but...

what the hell does this mean?

Hey Cokie Roberts see that goat over there. It is no wearing and diapers.

Can you translate, please?

[acmejack]

7. Two Iraqi sheperds were killed today for their goats not wearing

diapers (allegedly).

edit: That is as far as I can/will attempt to explain the goat story...

[Oversea Visitor]

9. Shhhh

So thing are intentional

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

13. I hadn't heard that.

Thanks for the info!

[Oversea Visitor]

11. No way

You got to figger it out yourself

[Robbien]

4. All the right winger pundits and blogs are calling it a disaster

It is a disaster for the DC DLC Democrats, but a positive sign for the Democratic party as a whole.

[Benhurst]

5. But the Republicans catering to their base is good.

Cokie Roberts is a fascist meidawhore, is now and ever shall be.

You have to be pretty far to the right to shock little George Stephanopoulos.

[Fovea]

8. 'pushing the party to the position from which it traditionally loses'

Yeah, we lost from the left running FDR, Truman, and JFK.

Cokie is either a lying bitch, or too stupid to be a pundit.
Which is it, Cokie?

[SaveElmer]

10. Cokie Roberts is the female Dick Morris...

Without the toe-sucking

Like Morris, if she makes a prediction, you can be sure the OPPOSITE will happen...

[marmar]

12. The punditry continues to spin itself into irrelevance...

Dems have been running as Repug-lite for years now and look where that's gotten them. Roberts and the rest of the removed-from-reality Washington journalists just don't get it anymore.

[quiet.american]

14. Right -- and people will be worse off if they make a living wage.

That's how it goes in Bizarro World.

[rocktivity]

15. Lamont IS playing to the base--AND THEY DON'T LIKE JOE ANYMORE!

But George has to take his share of the blame, too, for framing the question that--he WANTED a negative response, forcing Roberts to say something that didn't make a drop of sense...hey, maybe he's on our side, after all!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Democrats_win]

16. Bad if we loose that senate seat. We could end up even worse off.

[xchrom]

17. there is no reporter i hate more than cokie roberts.

she and peter beinart exemplify better than any one the intelligentsia sell out -- the educated gone willfully ignorant.

she sees the left correctly in one aspect -- we are threat to her comfortable living.

[calico1]

18. That's rich!

What exactly has the Republican party become over the last 30 years? Where once upon a time the party was controlled by Moderates and the wingnuts were just a fringe, now the wingnut rapture nutballs control the party. Why didn't she bring this up? Compared to how extreme the Republican party has become Democrats seem very Moderate in comparision. What a loser! Ned Lamont is not an extreme, leftist crazy. He is just a real Democrat.

[Demeter]

19. Cokie is All Wet

Because change requires change. Unless you really want it to happen only by accident (and we really can't wait for fate).

[closeupready]

20. But, wait, folks, maybe we should listen - this is Cokie Roberts!

You know, COKIE ROBERTS!!! Remember? She cured cancer. Er no, wait, she brokered peace in the Middle East. Er no, wait, she was a 4-term Senator from Missouri. No, wait, wait, wait - I know she had to have done SOMETHING for the world besides spout nonsense ABC pays her to do.

[w4rma]

21. REMEMBER, THE PRIMARY IS TOMORROW, TUESDAY the 8TH.

Let's take this lying, flip-flopping, endorsed by DeLay, Cokie, Coutler and Hannity, warmongering, neo-liberal (neo-con?), out with the TRASH!

The GET OUT THE VOTE campaign really starts **tomorrow**, bright and early!! Drive folks to the polls and volunteer!

Goooo Connecticut Dems!!!

[Skittles]

22. Cokie is a republican whore

remember that

[beltanefauve]

23. Cokie Roberts IS

a Republican whore, alright. Worse, NPR's "Morning Edition" features her every Monday!