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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on May 15, 2010, 05:45:33 AM
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Kim Strassel hits it on the head in this one from the Wall Street Journal.
The Democrats' Civil War
The Democratic primaries are generating nominees who are embracing, or even going beyond, the president's unpopular agenda.
OPINION: POTOMAC WATCH MAY 14, 2010
What do Joe Sestak, Bill Halter and Colleen Hanabusa have in common? The left loves them. This is yet another reason Democrats are in trouble this fall.
Given the obsessive coverage of the Republican "civil war," you may not realize Democrats are also feuding. Angry and disappointed that their president and Congress has not done more, the party's liberal base is throwing itself into the primaries, pushing the party to the left even as the country moves right.
Ask Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who on Tuesday will fight to keep her party's nomination against progressive Bill Halter, the state's lieutenant governor. Also up for judgment that day is Sen. Arlen Specter. He has his new party's full financial backing. Recent polls nonetheless show the liberal Mr. Sestak within striking distance.
Later next week Hawaii holds a special election to replace Rep. Neil Abercrombie, who resigned to run for governor. His district is Democratic, but the liberal Ms. Hanabusa is siphoning support from the party's preferred candidate, former Rep. Ed Case. Republican Charles Dijou might win.
These races follow primaries in Ohio and North Carolina where the anointed Democrat fought damaging battles against insurgent liberals. Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher prevailed over Netroots favorite Jennifer Brunner, but not before she had drained Mr. Fisher's campaign coffers. In North Carolina, the base's preferred pick, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, has dragged the more conservative state Sen. Cal Cunningham into a June runoff.
The rest of the article is here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704635204575242292247966322.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond
The thing is, the Left thinks that the Dems currently in office aren't Left enough. They're going to find out that the US is still a center-right nation. One of my moonbat co-workers thinks that, because he doesn't necessarily support a position or candidate, said candidate or position doesn't have a shot at becoming elected/supported. It's a common disease among moonbats/New Yorkers--the "I Am The World" strain of liberalism being a mental disorder. He also refers to the fact that he "has a political science degree" a lot. I remind him that he's a real estate appraiser, so the most he can do with that political science degree is wipe his ass with it.
Over/unders for Senate and House seats won by the Republicans this fall are 10.5 Senate seats flipping to the Republicans, and 114.5 House seats flipping to the Republicans. I'm taking the "over" in both.