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Good news!
We good Democrats need to commit now to working our asses off in 2016, and to raiding our piggie banks to help counter right-wing money. We can win the White House and take back the Senate and start taking back state legislatures so we can control redistricting in 2020 and start taking back the House.
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Thanks TPM for the terrible picture Strickland. (The kind of pic that the GOP would use)
I’m very pleased to hear this. 2016 already looks to be a very good year, but with great candidates like Strickland and Feingold throwing their hats in the ring, I’m wondering if perhaps the D party expects it to be an even better year than previously thought.
Oh, that’s just what TPM does. They have an extraordinary ability to find the very worst picture of anyone’s ever taken. For instance, they once posted a picture of FLOTUS and Jill Biden that made them both look unattractive, which is something I didn’t even know was remotely possible.
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Strickland is 73 years old. What is the point of nominating a man so old when younger, more vigorous, candidates are available? He’s another old warhorse who should be run down — which won’t be hard — and led back to the pasture.
Including one who is making pretty decent headway in the fundraising arena already. Sittenfeld is rumored to have already raised over $500,000 for a run.
Name recognition, and the prospect that the issues he’s outlined will be hot in 2016 with a presidential election.
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And as I think we discussed in an earlier story on this, I’m assuming they’ve done enough polling that they feel confident age won’t be an issue. In which case, yay – he’s a real “fighting Dem.”
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He is a known commodity, and despite starting with a $500K hole, probably won’t have much trouble raising money.
However, I did see an article today raising the issue of 2016 starting to look more and more like the Past then the Future…which is not a good optic of the party.
Then we need to differentiate people with old, discredited ideas from those with ideas that look to the future.
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Beat me to it. They’ve been pushing that line already wrt Hillary; but their “ideas” would bring us back to the 19th century. Literally.
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Agree – most of the Republicans I hear about these days propose policies that were favored under the Bush administration: deregulation of banks and industry, tax cuts, interference with schools, etc. Nothing to help boost our economy or make life better for the public.
I would take a Hillary Clinton or Jerry Brown over a “youngish” Paul Ryan or Paul Rubio any day.
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Hell, yes. (And noting that much of what the Bush administration favored – “reforming” Social Security ultimately out of existence, rolling back worker protections, low or no taxes – were policies that date to the McKinley administration.)
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