Let the cleansing begin....

[kentuck]

That seems to be position we are drifting towards?

It's all Obama's fault and now the Party must suffer in the midterms. All the talking heads are saying we will lose the House and perhaps, the Senate, also.

God forbid it would happen that way but if it does, please vote for the Democrats that will stand up for you above the corporations, that will stand up for you before the big financial institutions, that will stand up for you above the big insurance companies, and will stand for you before Wall Street. Don't stay home and let the good guys go down.

If some of them have to go down with the ship, let it be those that have stabbed us in the back for campaign contributions from their big business friends. Let us get some benefit from the defeat. It's obvious to many that the garden needs weeded. We will get Democrats that stand up for the people or we will have no Democrats at all. We will not settle for Republican-lites.

Is this where we are headed?

[Skittles]

1. a lot of voters feel they have no one to vote for

who will stand up for THEM

[kentuck]

2. and a lot of people here would criticize them for not voting,,,

the big "D"...

I think it is in the timing.

I would be hesitant to criticize them in this election...

[woo me with science]

3. +1

Yes, I think it is a feeling of utter exasperation and helplessness at this point.

[Skittles]

4. I sincerely wish when I vote Dem in November

I could check a box that says NOT AN ENDORSEMENT because I am not impressed; not by a LONG shot :thumbsdown:

[denbot]

5. True, but I'm going to vote anyway.

Lesser of two evils and all that..

[Skittles]

6. it is depressing voting anti-repuke instead of pro-Democratic

:(

[quaker bill]

9. Voting against repugs

is what has kept me going to the polls, every single election for the last 38 years. It is a more noble pursuit than you might think.

[Swamp Rat]

7. You, me, and a lot of others.

No matter how disappointed I am in the Dems, the GOP is as dangerous as a cult funded by billionaires, who control a cable news network and have a horde of crazy follow.... oh wait! :D

[PurityOfEssence]

8. Here: some cheery pablum from one of the early disenchanted

It is what it is. Cringing about the forthcoming bloodbath may very well be quite unwarranted: we may not take the drubbing predicted by so many. The administration's party almost always loses seats in the first mid-term; it's the way it is.

Still, the polls aren't so very clear, and keening over the loss that hasn't happened yet isn't much help.

As for our President and his Administration, from one who had major problems waaaaay back in the primaries with this bunch, chill a bit and keep it in perspective. Perhaps I'm anesthetized by crabby dismissal, but their policies and actions could have been a lot worse.

Yeah, I catch myself both ways at times, and there I was again this week listening on the radio as our President spoke very evenly about religion and was a fine voice of reason, until, of course, it was all ruined by his reminder that we are "one nation under god". Sigh. But what the hell? They are what they are, and some things are wandering in the right direction. Don't assign any sarcasm to this missive; I'm dead serious: I'm just a little farther down the pike of disenchantment, so some of the appeasement and flaccid policies don't disillusion me so much.

I'll still show up and vote, and I'll vote Dem.

[MineralMan]

10. Unrecced for defeatism.

[rucky]

11. Ok, we know the GOP strategy.

What's ours?

[kentuck]

12. I think there is a problem...

that there is not enough distinction between the Parties. People need to see a clear difference. Like Harry Truman said....

[TBF]

13. Bingo -

people voted for Obama because he promised change. They are going to look at their own situation now and say "well, nothing's changed". Still unemployed, still fighting wars, etc... Arguments like "well there would have been more job loss without the stimulus" are pretty esoteric and aren't going to register with most voters. They will either sit it out because they don't think it will help anyway, or they will vote anti-incumbent because they are angry. Most people don't sit around hashing & re-hashing these issues all day long. They will not spend nearly as much time thinking about this as we all do.