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The Democrats' Political Suicide

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EiMitch11/11/2014 3:19:54 pm PST

re: #28 jamesfirecat

Okay, I stand corrected on the “Romney unheard of’ part. And more importantly, I feel dumb for forgetting to point out the biggest flaw in your reasoning. Based on what you’ve said thus far, it seems your optimism for the old democrats is based on them winning by default after the tea party tears itself apart just because they don’t get the White House in 2016. Again, quit focusing on individuals and look at the bigger picture.

The teabaggers have taken over the legislative branch of the federal government. It helped them alot to have a single enemy face (Obama) to demonize and rally their base against. In this way, losing the race for PotUS in 2012 has been a blessing in disguise for republicans. I see no reason to expect the opposite to happen if the next PotUS is also a democrat.

We need to take back the HoR and Senate. Or at least one of them. Otherwise, keeping the oval office will prove to be a cold comfort at best. Thats the real task at hand, and current democrats don’t look up to it. The teabaggers have effectively moved the political “center” towards the right, and democrats have played along. That didn’t exactly inspire confidence, and neither did the last three elections.