re: #469 Anymouse

And as Mr. Wright notes, until liberals come up with an effective means of addressing those fears, we will continue to lose.

It’s too hard, or your variant of “they are dumb religious hicks,” isn’t going to win elections.

Your argument also implies that Hillary Clinton was a bad choice for a candidate. If the Democratic Party knew that (“the congregation would walk out atheists”) then how about a different candidate?

Sometimes the man or woman you want for an office is unelectable just because. Is it fair to Hillary Clinton that the GOP has been bashing her for thirty plus years? Certainly not. But politics is not a nice game and never has been in this country.

At some point, the responsibility has to be on the voters to inform themselves and take responsibility for our government of the people. This is a two-way street. Excusing their irrationality and ignorance doesn’t work and makes for bad policy. I don’t want Democrats to pander to that. There are enough decent, perhaps previously unactivated people out there who can be engaged in the political world. I find I have much better luck talking to the unaffiliated than trying to convert the Republican true believer. I think Democrats would be better served to focus on the 50% of non-voters in this country rather than waste time on the Limbaugh crowd.

Also, I don’t think my argument implies she was a bad candidate, I think it implies there was dishonest and unfair coverage of her from day 1, which was never her fault. Frankly, it was realizing the disparity with which she was treated that turned me from a Hillary skeptic in 2008 to a full on proud HillBot in 2016.