re: #24 jamesfirecat

Remember “Chickens for Checkups” remember “I am not a witch”? The Tea party has lost the Republicans seats at times by running overly extreme candidates, and we democrats should not feel the need to repeat that particular blunder.

You’re looking at individuals and ignoring the bigger picture. So what if some inept candidates lost? The tea party as a whole won in 2010, held onto their gains in 2012, and just won more power. Meanwhile, they’ve been pushing extremist agendas. That hasn’t hurt their overall chances.

Not to mention, you assumed I was talking about bringing in extremists? Why I never! I thought I made it clear that I meant bringing in fresh blood who had the energy and motivation to effectively fight back against the tea party. Something that older democrat politicians are clearly unwilling/unable to do. What is it about that which made you think of a modern day weatherman idolizing Che Guevara?

If the Republicans hold true to their pattern for running the guy who came in second in the primaries that means the guy who will be running for President in 2016 is Rick Santorum.

Incumbent presidents aside, predictions of a party’s PotUS candidate made before the start of the primaries are pretty much always wrong. Also, most people hadn’t heard of Obama and Romney before their respective PotUS campaigns.

It could not be of course, but I will be surprised if the winner of the primary isn’t from the Theocracy faction this time around.

I wouldn’t. Its been the oligarch candidates who’ve won each primary, not the theocrats. It happens precisely because theocrat candidates wouldn’t stand a chance in the general election. More than enough teabaggers showed they understood this 2012. They’re not that kind of delusional. Despite their gripes with the oligarchs, they know they need each other. The theocrats know they need the oligarchs relatively respectable facade, and the oligarchs know they need the theocrats fanatical turnout. That much didn’t change with the teabaggers’ rise to power.

Which calls back to when I said that they know what they’re doing.

but I don’t see why the results of a midterm are proof that they can’t still happen.

Like I said in my first post on this topic, I see this mid-term as a symptom, not as a problem by itself. Don’t forget that 2012 was more of a stalemate than a victory. We merely maintained the status quo at the time. We didn’t turn the tide at all. If “same ol’ same ol’ but this time we mean it we promise pretty please give us another chance” gets the job done in 2016, I’ll be surprised.