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Democrats’ Lessons from Jon Ossoff Loss: Move Left, Forget Civility
Breitbart Big Government ^ | 21 Jun, 2017 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 06/23/2017 9:03:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Democrats are concluding that Jon Ossoff’s disappointing loss to Karen Handel in the special election for Georgia’s 6th congressional district on Tuesday means they must move even further left, and reject calls for more civility. That might seem odd, especially in the wake of last week’s shooting attack against Republican members of Congress, and given that Handel won partly by tying Ossoff to the left and to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

But Democrats are convinced that Ossoff fell short by moving towards the center after running as the darling of the “#Resistance” in the primary election in April, and by trying to convince moderate Republicans to cross over.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: dncstrategy; ga2017; leftism; lessons; ossoff; socialism
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1 posted on 06/23/2017 9:03:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The sad thing is that socialism appeals to a great part of the democRAT party. They feel entitled to live off the productivity of others.


2 posted on 06/23/2017 9:04:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Sure; that shift left and shedding of civility worked so well for them over the past six years. Just like with these special elections.


3 posted on 06/23/2017 9:07:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Go left snowflakes. Go to the bosom of Fauxchahantas. You will still lose elections.


4 posted on 06/23/2017 9:08:35 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: MtnClimber

If it had that much appeal, the Party would have no impetus to engage in election fraud.


5 posted on 06/23/2017 9:08:41 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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After Liberals Lose An Election They Move To The Left And Commit Suicide – Lunch Alert!

http://www.dickmorris.com/liberals-lose-election-move-left-commit-suicide-lunch-alert/


6 posted on 06/23/2017 9:09:43 AM PDT by Signalman
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That’s what they ALWAYS do, go further Left, NEVER to the right or political center.

If you always do what you always did, then you will always get what you always got.

Losers..................


7 posted on 06/23/2017 9:11:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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“Then, gentlemen,” said Napoleon, “let us wait a little; when your enemy is executing a false movement, never interrupt him.”


8 posted on 06/23/2017 9:11:47 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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Moving further left can work in France and Germany. But, this won’t cut the cheese with USA voters. November 8th and the special elections show that as a fact.
Let’s hope the left remains oblivious.


9 posted on 06/23/2017 9:15:19 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning.)
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Best thing that could come out of the #GA06 results is for Democratic Party to finally give up its self-destructive obsession with centrism

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) June 21, 2017

So we have Ossoff to thank for pushing these DemocRATs to go even further left!


10 posted on 06/23/2017 9:15:43 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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They continue virtue-signalling for another Hodgkinson to assassinate Republican elected officials and/or Trump. The Democrat leadership ought to be arrested.


11 posted on 06/23/2017 9:19:05 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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Dems need a new face...Pelosi,Waters, Reid etal have soured the milk...


12 posted on 06/23/2017 9:23:01 AM PDT by albertabound (TARUMBO)
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Is there any Democrat anywhere who has a new idea? Every single one of them is still stuck in the 1932 FDR “gimme dat” playbook.


13 posted on 06/23/2017 9:23:04 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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Damn straight! Dems should embrace abortion paid by government, free college, raise minimum wage to $25 (15 bucks is so yesterday), Rachel Corrie on Mt. Rushmore, free healthcare, BLM members on Supreme Court, only electric cars on roads, free electricity, free food, free marijuana, death penalty for right wing thoughts and speech, free cable TV, free everything...except for whites and traitorous blacks who want an education and off the Democrat plantation.


14 posted on 06/23/2017 9:23:15 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: MtnClimber

lol

:)

love it!

yep that’s it Libs! you just aint crazy enough!

ROFL!


15 posted on 06/23/2017 9:23:52 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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Democrats are concluding that Jon Ossoff’s disappointing loss to Karen Handel in the special election for Georgia’s 6th congressional district on Tuesday means they must move even further left

YES PLEASE! Also get nastier! Yeah, that’s the ticket!


16 posted on 06/23/2017 9:25:46 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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Failure is supposed to teach lessons. In fact, it's the only way one can progress to success. But when one completely misidentifies the cause of the failure it will lead to even bigger failures.

In the 1970's Democrats were smart enough to realize after McGovern's defeat that they needed to mask their Socialist nature by running someone who appeared to be a good 'ol boy Georgia peanut farmer governor. They successfully performed the same slight of hand in 1992 with a charming rogue governor of Arkansas, and in 2008 with a blank slate stealth Marxist crypto-Muslim.

Looks like the current crowd is too fanatically committed to Marxism and moral depravity to recognize the pit they've dug and are doubling down on stupid.

17 posted on 06/23/2017 9:27:03 AM PDT by katana
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That’s a great idea.


18 posted on 06/23/2017 9:28:11 AM PDT by Fido969 (IN!)
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Pajama boy was running in a district where that far leftist nasty crap would not have played. Of course he needed to sound moderate.

But I would argue that the libs went as far left as they could go. They tried to assasinate the opposition for goodness sakes!!


19 posted on 06/23/2017 9:31:03 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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This is really really good news. In 2006 the Dems recaptured the Majority for a politically corrupt lazy GOP by pretending to be Republican light. Bill Clinton won in 1992 by faking being a “new kind of Democrat”. In 2008 Obama ran as empty and meaningless campaign as possible to conceal his rabid leftist agenda.

Lying to the voters has been the Democrat key to success for 50 years. Actually running on what they belive results in landslide disasters like 1792, 1980 and 1984.

We WANT them to move left.


20 posted on 06/23/2017 9:34:58 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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