Discussion: Top Dems Say Election Day Rout Is 2018 Bellwether: The GOP 'Better Look Out'

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Let’s not get cocky.

Let’s just focus on finding “new” capable candidates to restore the desperately needed sanity to our government, at all levels.

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Oi, Josh! Could you please run a story detailing exactly the extent of the bloodbath? I mean we know we won the Governorships in Virginia and New Jersey but what did we pick up and where in state and local races?

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C’mon, folks. Don’t give the bastards a heads up. Encourage them to carry on on their March to Hell. Tell them all to follow Cockholster’s lead. Tell them Lil’ Eddie is the Smartest Policy Wonk to ever grace the Capitol. Tell them they’re “really cool.” Give them directions to the cliff.

And on a personal note, if you can find the time please have a commemorative coin struck for the retired anesthesiologist who whacked Rand, inscribed with the motto “Touché Bouchet!”

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Too bad he didn’t chloroform the SOB…

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I guess we’ll see but I don’t think they can square that circle. Gillespie tried, and failed. It’s not that they don’t know they have a problem. It’s that they can’t solve it.

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Your wish has already been granted. Lots of new young capable candidates committed to running in 2018.Two good twitter accounts promoting these Dem candidates is CaptainsLog2017 and TrueFactsStated.

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Totally agree.

I remember when the county went blue in '06 and people were celebrating and somebody said to me that we shouldn’t be bad winners.

O fuck off please, was my response. Jeeeezuz. It wasn’t a fluke, we’re still in the same place 11 years later, still blue and even bluer.

Celebrate the everlasting fuck out of every win. They do.

It just makes us look like winners if we smile and celebrate once in a damn while.

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And could you give us a list of all the GOP congresscritters who have run for their li–, I mean retired?

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Meanwhile, Donna Brazile is now getting into bizarre conspiracy theories:

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/donna-brazile-russians-involved-in-seth-richs-death/

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I like feeling the sun on my face in the dead of winter.

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If Northam had lost yesterday–and the fear that he would was palpable–we’d all be saying it was just one race and didn’t mean the sky was falling.

Still true.

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It wasn’t just one race last night -it was every fucking race last night.

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Meanwhile, as everyone’s attention is focused elsewhere…

The De-Negrofication Presidency continues…

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But only in a couple of states.

Yes, it’s very heartening. But the really hard work is still ahead. We need to remember that.

One of my favorite stories is about the Tammany ward leader who reported to his boss this way, “The vote for president yesterday. Cleveland 892, Harrison 3. I’ll find the third guy if it takes a year.” That’s my kind of political operative.

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sigh

Yeah.

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So out with the old strategical thinking woman who’s a prodigious fund raiser for the House D caucus and the guy who’s been around the block a few times and is quiet but deadly when he wants to be. That’s what going to sink us, calling our own incapable

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This isn’t cocky. It’s a head fake. It’s a warning to every GOPer thinking of voting for this tax cut for the wealthy.

And dammit, people, you have to relish and celebrate your victories. Not doing so takes the joy out of winning. It takes the fun and the fight out of it. It doesn’t mean you don’t go even harder next time. It doesn’t mean you rest on your laurels. Quite the contrary. It sustains you for the next fight. It means you savor the taste so you’ll be even that much more motivated to taste it again. And soon.

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Well she got knocked out of the headlines so she had to go all Alex Jones.

Is Donna having a breakdown? Inquiring minds want to know…

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Yeah plus it’s good damn PR for us - it builds our voter base when we win. And when we act confident.

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