WillyT tells us why the radical Islamic extremist lost

[franksolich]

http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/why-did-keith-ellison-lose-the-dnc-race-wapo/

Oh my.

And this guy was the near-unanimous selection of Manny's primitives, too.

WillyT    (5188 posts)    February 28, 2017 at 8:52 am
 
Why Did Keith Ellison Lose The DNC Race? – WaPo

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The Democratic National Committee was bracing for a backlash if Thomas Perez won its chairmanship, and it got one. In the AmericasMart meeting room where Perez defeated Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), nine protesters from Democracy Rising carried out quite the protest — chants of “party of the people, not big money” as Perez and outgoing interim DNC chair Donna Brazile gritted their teeth. Writers on the left, including Nathan J. Robinson, Matt Bruenig and Corey Robin, were quick to ask whether the Democratic establishment had a death wish.

“The left should focus its energies on organizing under alternative institutions that, if they engage with the Democratic party at all, only do so in order to attempt hostile takeovers of various power positions,” Bruenig wrote. “Only a sucker would do more than that, given what the party has just shown itself to be about at this time.”

As one of just two reporters who went to every DNC forum — the other was Nomiki Konst, a Young Turks reporter who will also serve on the DNC’s “unity commission” to change the primary system — I saw angst about this reaction building for weeks. I also saw why 235 DNC members decided to back Perez. Had the race been shorter, Ellison might well have won. But a few converging factors blunted his momentum — and they weren’t the factors that got the most coverage.

DNC members were not ready to reject the Obama legacy. The basic critique of Bruenig et al is right: The leadership of the Democratic Party, nationally and in most states, has resisted acknowledging the failures of the Obama years. Brazile opened the first of the party’s four “future forums” by telling Democrats that the DNC “failed you” in 2016 and “got cocky about our invincible blue wall.”

But for Brazile and other Democrats…

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But anyway, Skippy's stooge WillyT has it all wrong anyway; the guy lost because in the superior insight and wisdom of regular establishment Democrats who run the party with their checkbooks and shoe-leather instead of merely their mouths, if he'd gotten it, the wild-eyed rabid Moslemite would've scared away even more potential voters at a time when the Democrat party needs all the voters it can get.

[USA4ME]

That Ellison is black and hasn't said overtly nasty things about hating Jews was probably another reason why he lost.

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[BlueStateSaint]

Coach, as it is, the Sandernistas are probably going to cry foul.  How will they do it?  Reduced donations to the Dems, and votes.  Or, more accurately, voters.  The Dems won't do well in 2018--the sheer numbers of Dems up for re-election in the Senate stack the deck heavily against them--and although President Trump's numbers look bad at the moment, the 2020 elections are a political eternity away.  Let's remember that President Reagan had similar challenges in this early stage of his first term (this was just pre-assassination attempt), and he crushed the Dems in 1984.  President Trump is going down a similar path.

[franksolich]

That Ellison is black and hasn't said overtly nasty things about hating Jews was probably another reason why he lost.

I was concerned when the guy started moderating his true opinions, thinking it might persuade some that he was actually a reasonable person--you know, lying for political advantage, the wolf in sheep's clothing, whatnot.

The Democrat party needs to thank God it didn't work, that they dodged a bullet.

[franksolich]

Coach, as it is, the Sandernistas are probably going to cry foul.  How will they do it?  Reduced donations to the Dems, and votes.  Or, more accurately, voters.

That's my bitch about the supporters of the old sourassed sourpuss.  Their donations to the Democrat party and its other candidates probably didn't add up to a plugged nickel, and of course many of them stayed away from the polls on election day.

The gimme crowd is not nice people, and they'd be doing humanity a favor if they just laid down and died.

[SVPete]

The Ds chose a corrupt America-hating equine anus over a sharia-loving America-hating equine anus. Prog shibboleths are almost nothing when seen through that lens.

[YupItsMe]

I was concerned when the guy started moderating his true opinions, thinking it might persuade some that he was actually a reasonable person--you know, lying for political advantage, the wolf in sheep's clothing, whatnot.

The Democrat party needs to thank God it didn't work, that they dodged a bullet.

 I was rooting for Ellison all the way. 

[franksolich]

I was rooting for Ellison all the way. 

Neither of us had a dog in the fight, but because I think a competitive two-party system's essential to our way of life, I was rooting for the one whose selection would do the least damage to the already-considerably-damaged Democrat party.

The choice of Manny's primitives would've killed it for sure. 

And perhaps that's what they really wanted anyway.