re: #373 sagehen

Also, the coastal/urban Dems (the party’s activist base) need to quit their damn whining about how Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh and Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Manchin and Claire McCaskill aren’t liberal enough. For fuck’s sake, if they were liberal enough to please New Yorkers and Californians they wouldn’t ever have been elected in their states.

Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu, and Max Baucus are the types of senators that you tend to get with a 50-state strategy. I remember the rage against all of them. There was a lot of in-fighting in blogs about the need for them, and how we needed to get better Democrats in those seats.

Let’s say we do make headway over the next two election cycles. How do we keep from blowing up again if these type of Dems replace the Republicans that hold those seats now?