Learning from my 2014 mistakes: A year of reckoning for Democrats (Delicious Schadenfreude Buffet)

Salon ^ | November 28, 2014 | Joan Walsh, editor-at-large

[TigerClaws]

Blaming Ebola?

Not the cancelled policies and insurance rates doubling due to an extremely divisive law? Not the constant race baiting domestic policy and America last foreign policy?

As usual with libs, it’s all about the spin.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...a phony GOP-made crisis...??? - how many died of Ebola in Africa already? - 16,000? - the GOP sure has a lot of power to be able to pull off that kind of phoniness.....

[txhurl]

Let’s rub a little salt in the wound:

The Vanishing White Democrat (Daniel Greenfield)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3228726/posts

[EagleUSA]

The Rats have not learned anything. They will keep doing the same stuff until they are stopped.

[Sivad]

Ebola-shmola, the libtards have been claiming for years that
the GOP has been moving way too far to the right and would
pay an electoral price. Reality bit the Dems on the ass and
they still don’t know it judging by this nitwit article.
The truth is GOP, and conservative Republicans, in partic-
ular, like to stay put. That’s why we are conservative. It is the Democrats who have moved left beyond reason that has
the masses pissed off. Next time a lib says that the GOP
has swerved to the right point out that twenty years ago
and less both Republicans and Democrats opposed gay
marriage. Now just Republicans oppose it. Who changed?

[Billthedrill]

I will say the author has pointed up with considerable precision the problems the current Democrat party has, but not in the way that he thinks. To be concise, it's him.

For one thing, his insistence on looking at such topics as Ebola strictly through a political lens is madness. Here we had, and still have, a communicable disease with a 70% mortality rate, and it isn't to be taken seriously because that has negative political implications? One could search hard and still not find a case of suicidal blindness to match. It was not hysteria and no, the government did not do enough.

It gets stranger than that.

For now, the Democrats’ oft-touted advantages with “women” – which should always be described as “all women except for white women” — are outweighed by their difficulties with whites.

Quite a bit of pathology in a single sentence. Gone is the appreciation that white women did support 0bama in numbers which invite reservations about their sanity, and present is a sharp divide along a racial divide that does the author little credit; in fact, it's disgraceful. That sentence might have been written by any Grand Kleagle of the KKK. The clear implication is that white support of the Democrats evaporated because they are all racists, and yet somehow they elected 0bama twice, didn't they? A rational mind might wonder what's wrong with that case. The author does not.

"They learned nothing and they forgot nothing," as Talleyrand said about the people whose heads met the machine of Dr. Guillotine. Those heads, at least, were no more empty than those belonging to the current American Left. I shall happily offer the author a narrative other than his convoluted political agonizing. What happened was that the American people had a bellyful of the arrogant, ignorant, racist, finger-wagging progressives and voted accordingly. It had nothing to do with either race or sex and everything to do with disgust at the lies and the ridicule and the incessant hatred.

[wildbill]

bttt

[stylin19a]

never let a good crisis go to waste is for thee but not for me ?

[az_gila]

“...And when hysteria prevails, the GOP wins...”

I always thought that when hysteria (aka. lack of logic or reasoning) prevails it's usually in the (D) favor.

[FreeAtlanta]

We can’t help it that they handled the Ebola crises incompetently.

Americans wanted flights shut down from those infected countries. We didn’t want Ebola brought to our shores.

Obama became Obola.

[oblomov]

I have yet to read a single article from a non-right wing writer that blames the 2014 election losses on campaign tactics or policies of the Democrats themselves.

[Pollster1]

Joni Ernst, Senate, from Iowa.
Shelley Moore Capito, Senate, from West Virginia. [total six republican women in the Senate].
Mia Love, Congress, from Utah.
Elise Stefanik, Congress, from New York. [Total 22 or 23 republican women in the House].

Why isn’t she happy with this record number of women? Or is she almost ready to admit that the whole “war on women” thing is a lie, and she only cares about liberal women who want to grab our guns and kill babies?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOVED reading this!

: )

Obama is the hefty boat anchor tightly tied around the Progressive movement’s long, vulnerable neck. They are the real Grubered crowd.

[Scram1]

Senator Pryor was ahead in most Arkansas polls until President Obama arrived and viewed the tornado damage. Gay marriage was declared legal the same week as his visit— Sunday newspaper photos on Mother’s Day.

[Bob]

Yeah, it was an unbelievably horrible year for white women running for office, well, for the ones with a D after their names anyway.

[Din Maker]

I still believe Texas will turn blue again...
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OK, Mr. Walsh...... lay down the crack pipe and shut down your computer......

[Din Maker]

I still believe Texas will turn blue again...
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OK, Mr. Walsh...... lay down the crack pipe and shut down your computer......

[Tea Party Terrorist]

You don’t get it. Liberal women do not think conservative women are “real women.” (Just like conservative blacks are not real blacks, conservative hispanics are not real hispanics...you get the point).

[Pollster1]

Liberal women do not think conservative women are “real women.”

Then there are people who think (understandably) that liberal women are not real women.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Nancy Pelosi

Rosie O'Donnell

Chrissy Matthews

Rachel Maddow