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Gotta agree with Maher here. Democrats have been cowards. They have allowed Republicans to run against someone who isn’t even running without having anything of their own to run on. And refusing to do anything about it. It’s unacceptable.
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This is the same Maher who supported Rand Paul, he has no room to be throwing stones.
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I vote democratic and this is the sorriest bunch i’ve seen in years. The guy running against Michael Grimm
deserves to lose. Why? Why?
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Maher once again doesn’t understand that all politics is local. There are 469 different campaigns, and 50 states. Expecting every campaign to be run exactly 100% the same is to be politically tone deaf. Al Franken can sing Obama’s praises all he wants to because he’s in Minnesota, which is extremely left wing. On the other hand. Grimes can’t say anything about Obama, because Kentucky is fairly conservative. All politics is local and involves getting the votes of constituents you wouldn’t normally get.
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That egomaniac has the best writers.
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Why would the DNC chairperson Wasserman-Schultz have candidates run away from this record? She really has no clue on how to run a national campaign.
“Sixty-three straight months of economic expansion,” Maher said. “A depression averted. A deficit reduced by two-thirds. A health care law that’s working and lowering costs. Two women on the Supreme Court. [Osama] bin Laden’s dead. Stock market at record heights. An unemployment rate that dropped from 10.2 [percent] to 5.9. If you’re a Fox News viewer trying to do the math, that’s less. Gas prices are down. Is it really that hard a record to get behind?”
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totally agree with Bill on this one.
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He wrote President Obama a check for a cool million last election, so you might want to review your assumptions.
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And it’s clear you have no clue at all about how midterms are run. There is no national campaign in midterm election seasons.
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we would be a lot more fired up if the president was stumping with candidates. and i am sure he would be willing. the base loves the prez and a lot of folks in between could get fired up too. missed opportunity.
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Stumping for Dems in states where Obama has 30% approval is politically stupid. Like the saying goes, politics is local, and I speak from experience living in a deep red district, Colorado Springs. The Democrat running here against Lamborn isn’t saying a thing about Obama, and no amount of subtly embracing him or qualifiers will make embracing Obama acceptable here, as is the case in other red areas across the country where Democrats are competing.
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And? How is it helping Obama by helping the GOP win seats by attacking Democrats?
Wow! Minnesota is so left wing that it sends Michelle Bachman to Congress!
Who knew?
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Bachmann represents one red district in Minnesota, Al Franken is competing statewide. Apples and oranges.
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Why would the DNC chairperson Wasserman-Schultz have candidates run away from this record?
Answer: Because of President Blacky McBlack, that’s why. The rest of you who are cheering on Maher probably don’t live in moderate to deep Red states. You probably live in a state like I do: Blue and not getting Red anytime soon. I have that luxury. But Grimes in KY and Nunn in GA do not. No way.
Get over yourselves.
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If you have a whiney complaint and are thinking of not voting, you are the same fucking idiots that had whiney complaints against Obama in 2010 and sat out the midterms giving Republicans a monster advantage in a RE`-fucking-DISTRICTING year. The GOP rigged the map cause you sat home and sulked.
There is something hugely important about having the gavel and the majority that the Professional Left activists somehow missed.
Obama is the most popular politician in DC, yet the dems believe the GOP headlines that keeping saying Obama is a failure.
Come on liberals, pull up you big boy pants and vote.
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I totally agree with Maher. Democrats need to show some backbone. Distancing themselves from the President is almost as ridiculous as former Gov. Willard “Mitt” Romney (R-MONEY) distancing himself from Romneycare.
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Yeah I don’t get it. Why is the liberal base supposed to be excited to turn out if nobody is offering a reason to be excited?
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They should be excited to turn out because doing so will keep the GOP from destroying the country.
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