Bayh: Democrats must learn from the election.

[BurtWorm]

Like for instance, maybe incumbents should give more than two months notice to the local party when they bail out, you fucking asshole?





:puke:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/opinion/03bayh.html

Indianapolis

DEMOCRATS can recover from the disappointments of this election and set the stage for success in 2012. But to do so we must learn from Tuesday’s results.

Many of our problems were foreseeable. A public unhappy about the economy will take it out on the party in power, even if the problems began under previous management. What’s more, when one party controls everything — the House, the Senate, the White House — disgruntled voters have only one target for their ire. And the president’s party almost always loses seats in midterm elections.

Nonetheless, recurring patterns of history, broad economic forces and the laws of politics don’t entirely account for the Democrats’ predicament. To a degree we are authors of our own misfortune, and we must chart a better path forward.

It is clear that Democrats over-interpreted our mandate. Talk of a “political realignment” and a “new progressive era” proved wishful thinking. Exit polls in 2008 showed that 22 percent of voters identified themselves as liberals, 32 percent as conservatives and 44 percent as moderates. An electorate that is 76 percent moderate to conservative was not crying out for a move to the left.

[hobbit709]

1. Maybe we should take advice from Vidkun Quisling while we're at it, Bayh

[City Lights]

2. STFU, Evan.

YOU and those like you are the ones who needs to learn something.

[mod mom]

6. exactly!

[MBS]

3. infuriating, despicable

. .all the more so since, in resigning, he chose to hang on to his $10 million 'war chest" rather than use it to help other Dems.
He is the lowest of the low.

[Le Taz Hot]

4. Don't tell me, let me guess

the Democratic Party should move more to the right. :eyes:

[alsame]

5. One lesson learned is not to ever elect DINOs like him. nt

[Rambis]

7. I should have voted Dean all those years ago

I have been screaming ever since:banghead:

[hfojvt]

8. he's not wrong in some of the things he says

but I bet he does not mention how the money powers still control the airwaves and the narratives as evinced by a rightwing shitweasel like himself getting to spew his rightwing bullsh*t in the media, and maybe even getting paid to do so.

[marmar]

9. Please go and and take your seat on some corporate board, never to be heard from again.....

[blue sky at night]

10. money...

hey folks, they have it and we don't....in 2012 we will loose again, and again and again....CITIZENS UNITED will be the end of the Democratic Party. Wonder who they will blame when we are gone?

[Jamastiene]

11. Fuck Bayh.

We haven't moved to the left. Does he see any actual legislation that ends DADT yet? I sure the fuck don't. How is endlessly studying something that had already been studied to death back in 1993 helping GLBT issues? It's not. We still don't have rights.

He needs to stick it where the sun don't shine with his anti-gay rhetoric.

[Myrina]

12. Evan Bayh needs to STFU and crawl back under his wife's skirt tails ...

He's the biggest wanker since GW Bush. :puke:

[SemperEadem]

13. I don't think Evan Bayh is in any position to tell any Dem anything

The Dems didn't have to lose anything over the course of the last two years had they stiffened their spine and done what the voters sent them to Washington to do. Period. Don't blame this mess on parties in power, blah blah blah. You didn't have the stomach for this fight. You've taken corporate money and your wife has done some shady shit,too, so zip it already.

the Dems under-interpreted the mandate they were handed, if anything.

If you need to figure out where you went wrong:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x521225


this is why the Dems are foundering.

[malaise]

14. Indeed

Get rid of the Bayh's early

[truebrit71]

15. TrueBrit71: Bayh needs to STFU and GTFO

...you didn't even have the stones to defend your own seat, so the thought that ANYONE should listen to a word that escapes from your DINO mouth is laughable...