Cheer up! This was the DLC's greatest election showing EVER

[MannyGoldstein]

Just think - in all previous six Congressional elections in which the DLC/third-way crowd ran our Party, we emerged holding neither house of Congress. After yesterday, we still have a tenuous hold on the Senate.

Bravo! Their batting average went from .000 to .071.

(Dr Dean's batting average is 1.000)

[BzaDem]

1. I'm surprised you admire Dr. Dean's electotral strategy so much. After all, the people elected in

his "50 state strategy" were primarily conservative Democrats who opposed things like the public option. If that's a 1.000 batting average to you, I'm completely at a loss as to your methods of measurement.

[madfloridian]

2. Stop spreading that untruth. Dean did NOT let the DNC get involved

in picking candidates. It was Rahm and Chuck who handpicked the conservadems.

It is simply not true that Dean's 50 state plan should be blamed. They picked the candidates, not Dean. In fact when Dean refused to give the DSCC and DCCC more money for campaigns, said the state parties needed it.....they verbally attacked him. Rahm even used the FU term.

I get tired of people repeating that meme.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. +1

[leftstreet]

5. +1

[readmoreoften]

6. Well, that is what they're here to do. Spread disinformation.

[defendandprotect]

8. + 1 --

[kath]

11. +10

Don't blame Dean for what that asshole Rahm did.

[Lugnut]

12. +100 n/t

[TornadoTN]

14. +100x Infinity! n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

16. +1

[Greyhound]

18. Well, there are only a limited number of sources for this meme on DU.

We know who they are and their message is consistent.

The systematic crippling of the Democratic Party marches on as a vital step toward neo-feudalism.

[donheld]

20. I wish we could recommend individual posts

:yourock:

[defendandprotect]

7. It was DLC/Rahm who pushed those conservative Dems into candidacy ...

and who hatched all those little "Blue eggs" -- NOT Howard Dean --

and often Rahm was pushing conservative Dems even against more liberal Dem

incumbents!

[Qutzupalotl]

19. We'd have held a lot more of them

if Dean had been around to help with policy and messaging. Not all of them, but a good number. We probably would have a much better health plan, one we could be proud to trumpet instead of this better-than-nothing message.

[HughMoran]

3. Dean was handed an unusually Democrat friendly environment

But, let's do as we usually do and Monday Night Quarterback - facts be damned.

[defendandprotect]

9. Do you recall the attack on Howard Dean from within the Dem Party ... ???

By DLC .... Rahm/Gibbs ...?

[EFerrari]

15. Yep. n/t

[Vinnie From Indy]

13. You would know all about the philosophy of "facts be damned"

It should be your sig line!
Cheers!

[Timbuk3]

10. Election Factoids

I thought I’d drop these facts here before they disappear down the memory hole and the MSM starts lying about “what this elections means”.

Blue Dog coalition lost 18 of 34 seats. New Democrat coalition (third wayers) lost 15 of 45 seats. Progressive caucus lost 3 of 72 seats.

Eighty-eight percent of voters cited unemployment and the economy as their number one concern.

So…

“Repeal and replace healthcare” is not why the GOP won seats, and when they say it is they’re lying.

The GOP won 33 seats in the house by defeating “conservative” Democrats in “red” districts. This is more than half of their gains. Without those seats the house would be 218 “D” and 206 “R” with the called elections as of today, and 218 is enough for the majority.

In complete alignment with previous mid-term elections, younger voters turned out at only 2/3 the rate they did in 2008. Meanwhile, the seniors turned out just like they always do. These same seniors, who appeared in droves at Glenn Beck’s Tent Revival and Hover-round demonstration on their medicare-paid Hover-rounds, also oppose “Obamacare” by roughly 6 in 10.

So…

Those who are already receiving social security and medicare demonstrated that they don’t care if you don’t get it, too.

The bottom line is, progressives in blue states DID show up. Heck, in DE we flipped the House seat from “red” to “blue”. The problem is, regressives in red states showed up, too. And since they’ve already got theirs, they don’t care if there’s nothing left for you. So they elected stains on humanity like Rand Paul.

[ProSense]

17. Actually, the blue dogs who rode into elected office in 2006

got crushed yesterday.