She’s young, attractive, amusingly sharp-tongued, and emblematic of what’s portrayed as the hot new trend in liberal politics. That’s usually enough, Claire. This does not become you, but if that’s how you want to go out fine.
Claire is still clearly a little miffed at her loss, but at the same time, she clearly gets how the game is played in D.C. There’s a certain part of what she’s saying that should be listened to.
She’s not jealous at all !
“Cheap” in the sense that she’s doing it without being paid by corporate donors.
Who the F is disrespecting work of any sort? This dingbat is buying in to the whole Blue Color Mythology that is just a series of excuses for being racist and backwards.
Of course, she’s comparing apples to oranges in how AOC needs to play her hand as a Rep. vs. how Claire had to play her hand in the Senate. Different jobs and constituencies.
Outgoing Sen. Claire McCaskill
If only she’d been a little more outgoing, she might have seen some incoherence in these remarks:
[A] “She’s now talked about a lot. I’m not sure what she’s done yet to generate that kind of enthusiasm, but I wish her well, I hope she hangs the moon. But I hope she also realizes that [B] the parts of the country that are rejecting the Democratic Party, like a whole lot of white working-class voters, need to hear about how their work is going to be respected, and the dignity of their jobs, and how we can really stick to issue that we can actually accomplish something on. The rhetoric’s cheap. Getting results is a lot harder.”
(Quoted from transcript.)
The people outperforming in this last cycle were generally running AOC-style campaigns – reaching out to voters personally, campaigning relentlessly, and rejecting corporate $ – whereas those underperforming were running Claire McKaskill style campaigns, doing thins the old fashioned Dem way.
Yes, a lot of the progressives lost, but thats only because they were running in places no one would have dreamed of getting close in the past (GA, TX, etc.), whereas many places that should have been much easier turned out hard, or were straight up lost (e.g., Joe Manchin is touted as a victory, but this was his narrowest victory by far).
So with all due respect to Sen. McCaskill, I think I’ll take the winning horse over the losing horse.
Bye Felicia.
“hope she hangs the moon”… what the hell does that mean? Is that like boiling the bunny?
You could google it. Actually, it’s quite a compliment, so I’m not sure why some are piling on here.
think (one) hung the moon
To consider someone to be extraordinary, the best, or exceptionally wonderful. Your little sister absolutely adores you. She thinks you hung the moon!
There is absolutely no reason AOC should be getting headlines for her cheap talk. 435 congressmen were elected or reelected in the same election and she is heading to the gullible media, causing undo conflict in the party, with her unreal talk for what? She has done nothing. There are many among the 435 who are accomplished and working hard every day. Where are their stories?
My district had a young white female candidate with some of the same issues far out of the realm of possibility and she lost. AOC’s win is a fluck.
The contrast between AOC and Pelosi is stark.
I heard the interview and I did not interpret the remarks re AOC as a criticism of AOC, but rather an observation as to the GOP response to her. Everything Claire said about AOC was accurate so why is AOC the hot topic and not any one of the 39 other freshman? Is it because she’s a non-white woman who is bright and opinionated? The GOP loves to villainize Democratic women which they are already doing to AOC who hasn’t even taken office yet much less cast any votes. This is the context in which I heard Claire’s remarks.
Perhaps some here are a little too reflexively defensive. Claire is more conservative than I am but she has certainly earned the benefit of the doubt.
While I certainly would have preferred McCaskill to her lying right wing loony opponent, I have absolutely zero interest in anything this washed up DINO has to say about anything.
If AOC is a safety seeking dullard like McCaskill, she will do worse than to find her own voice.
Claire, Claire, Claire…
“The rhetoric is cheap,” she continued, after suggesting that agenda items like Ocasio-Cortez’s push for free college tuition, won’t get anywhere in the Senate. “Getting results is a lot harder.”
And it’s damn near impossible when you signal in advance that you’re willing to give in.
Watch McCaskill try and take her brand of weak sauce centrism, and try and make a presidential campaign of it. Why is it only Democrats have to play to this non-existent political center?
“I’m not sure what she’s done yet to generate that kind of enthusiasm, but I wish her well, I hope she hangs the moon,” McCaskill said of Ocasio-Cortez. “But I hope she also realizes that the parts of the country that are rejecting the Democratic Party, like a whole lot of white working-class voters, need to hear about how their work is going to be respected, and the dignity of their jobs, and how we can really stick to issue that we can actually accomplish something on.”
