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Can democrats possibly fuck up any worse than this election cycle. Wait, don’t answer that, it was rhetorical.
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Most of the criticism of Davis I read (especially over the “wheelchair” ad) was that she wasn’t running enough of a “generic national Democratic candidate” campaign.
Which as the kind of criticism that told me the critics hadn’t a clue how to run as a Democrat in Texas.
If Cari and Dougherty lost access to Davis, I wonder why? The monied interests from out of state? Out of state advisors convinced they could help Davis win? Damned Yankees?
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Klassic. Utterly klassic.
As someone living in Austin, I could tell you this campaign seemed adrift from the moment it launched. I was barely contacted, never saw mention of appearances, etc.
We all knew she was going to lose, but it wasn’t like she was even working to make it close. If she wants to step up to a national level, she’s going to have to work a lot harder.
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And in other news, Republicans are vile racist misogynists, the sky is blue, the Pope is Catholic, and the moon is not made out of gooey stringy cheese.
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“I’m not a member of an organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” ~ Will Rogers
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In February 2014 NYT ran a long profile of Davis detailing the uphill struggle she was having and it was entitled Can Wendy Davis Have It All and you could reasonably infer the answer was no. Also, the voter turnout in Texas was 28.5% compounding all her existing difficulties.
Gosh. Democrats really screwed this election cycle up big time.
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Paulie is waiting in the wings to roll out RAyncare again. That’s right up there with the what-else-is-new news.
This critique could easily have been applied to Barry Goldwater in the '60s (from the other side, of course). My how things have changed.
At 38.9% of the vote, Wendy Davis probably performed about as well as she would have had she not bothered to campaign at all. I’m guessing that’s roughly the default number of votes she’d get just for being a Democrat.
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So… basically some coddled-ass DC Dem consultants are shitting on her because she had the temerity to not run a cowardly campaign against her president and party (one that she would have lost just as handily if not more so)? This is why the Dems’ national brand sucks and why many core Democratic constituencies don’t come out to vote in midterms. This is why the party of chickenhawks and lost wars gets away with painting the party of government as a bunch of wimps. The Democratic Party owes Wendy Davis a debt of gratitude for running a pretty good campaign – and more importantly, for campaigning as an unabashed Democrat in Texas. With a few of her in every state, the Dems could retake Dixie within a generation – but sadly, all they’ve got is this useless, parasitic consultant class that every two years counsels them to run against themselves.
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Don’t worry. The same DLC/Third Way crowd that brought you this disaster is ready for more in 2016.
By contrast, all of the Democrats who strategically ran away from Obama and liberalism… lost. It was always going to be a long shot. Kudos to Davis for at least staying true to her principles instead of running “Republican lite.”
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Well, among other things, she didn’t have much in the way of credentials beyond her 15 minutes of fame filibuster. I could see using that as a kind of a launching pad for a broad-based populist agenda, but she didn’t have much beyond that little toe-hold and did not use well what little she had.
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Wendy Davis was not going to win in Texas for many reasons but the main one is that she’s a Democrat. There was no path to victory here.
I’m reminded of the county I live in here in California that I won’t mention (Kern) whose principle city is a dead end alley whose name I also won’t mention (Bakersfield). They have not voted for a Democrat for president since Johnson in 1964. They even voted for this year’s Republican absolutely nobody governor candidate by about the same margin in which he lost state wide. This even though Brown somehow managed to save a sinking ship that was about to go under.
There’s no difference. They like to remain uninformed and ignorant which is why politically it’s a dead end. Statewide and National Republican candidates don’t spend much time here because they know they’ll carry the area regardless. Democrats spend no time here because it’s pointless. (Obama did make one visit but he wasn’t campaigning.)
I pretty much view Texas the same way, but they have lots of company. Sooner or later, it will catch up with them. Both Abbot and Perry are about as crooked as they come. But both know where to hide the bodies, figuratively speaking. And most of Texas seem to like it that way because of Jeebus, Guns, and whatever.
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At least she ran as a real democrat. Don’t worry Wendy, you are still young enough to run for governor again when Texas turns blue.
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marnold thats why i called them DEMOWIMPS.
As a GOPer member of Congress explained some years ago, bipartisanship consists of the Democrats doing what the GOP tells them to do.
Almost wondering if Obama let them all to hang because of how they do him all the time, and forcing the R to have to do something useful this cycle, or lose again in 2016.
If you really think about it, what would another D majority really change from before? Might as well see what R got and watch them fail creating a 2 year campaign,