re: #17 nines09

Amen. This is why it was such a huge mistake for Democratic congressional candidates to run away from Obama and Obamacare.

Running for improved heath coverage gives the candidate all kinds of opportunities to talk about the way the reforms can help people, all kinds of opportunities to talk about the bad old days of pre-existing condition bullshit, and all kinds of opportunities to hammer the GOP for their insistence that no reforms were needed at all.

The fact that the GOP health care plan, in its entirety, is: “1) Don’t get sick, 2) If you get sick, die quickly” should have been plastered all over the country by the Democrats in a nationwide campaign.

Instead too many (D) candidates curled up in the fetal position and didn’t affirmatively stand for anything.