Going Extreme: Demint Says Recruiting Electable Moderates "Doesn't Make Any Sense"

[marmar]

via AlterNet's PEEK:



Going Extreme: Demint Says Recruiting Electable Moderates "Doesn't Make Any Sense"

Posted by Jed Lewison, Daily Kos at 6:26 AM on November 8, 2009.

You thought only the left formed up into circular firing squads.




More GOP civil war:

(NRSC Chairman John) Cornyn has gambled much on finding and promoting centrists able to win Senate seats in swing states and even some Democratic redoubts. And he’s decided to do so even though those candidates in at least four states — California, Florida, Kentucky and Connecticut — must first compete in and win expensive and potentially divisive primaries, mainly against more socially and fiscally conservative candidates.

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"He’s trying to find candidates who can win. I’m trying to find people who can help me change the Senate," said Jim DeMint of South Carolina, a leader of the conservative bloc. "To think we can grow the party by picking people who are more liberal and don’t share our core values doesn’t make any sense."

As kos said earlier this week about the urge to purge amongst teabaggers:

Maybe they've stumbled upon a brilliant "addition by subtraction" political formula that allows them to win more races by kicking everyone out of their party. But I still like our approach better. And in the end, we have the majorities to prove it worked.

Maybe they will. But so far, the only stumbling they've done has been over the first Democratic victory in NY-23 since the Civil War.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143795/going_extreme%3A_demint_says_recruiting_electable_moderates_%22doesn%27t_make_any_sense%22/

[BzaDem]

1. It isn't really surprising, considering many on DU share his views on Dem candidate recruitment. n/t

[annabanana]

2. Demint is WAY down on the congressional "smarts" scale.

Always assume that he is wrong, and ALSO confused about what stand he's taking.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Demint believes the current mantra, that if they only stick to the Consevative volues they will win.

They also believe that they lost only because their candidates failed to be conservative enough.

I have no problem with him seeking to put those ideas to work.

Now, if Democrats decide to purge Democrats because their candidates and elected leaders arn't liberal enough, that is stupid.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Jim Dement-ed suffers from Limbaughitis. There is no cure.