{"id":184349,"date":"2012-05-28T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/28\/why-democrats-lose-elections\/"},"modified":"2012-05-28T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T01:46:00","slug":"why-democrats-lose-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/28\/why-democrats-lose-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Democrats Lose Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because our so-called leaders are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/post\/wisconsin-recall-dncs-debbie-wasserman-schultz-sees-no-national-impact-if-democrats-lose\/2012\/05\/25\/gJQAVJ8KqU_blog.html\">cowardly incompetents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said Friday that if Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) doesn\u2019t prevail over Gov. Scott Walker (R) in next month\u2019s Wisconsin recall election, there won\u2019t be any ramifications for Democrats nationally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, honestly, there aren\u2019t going to be any repercussions,\u201d Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said in a broad-ranging interview on C-SPAN\u2019s \u201cNewsmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an election that\u2019s based in Wisconsin. It\u2019s an election that I think is important nationally because Scott Walker is an example of how extreme the tea party has been when it comes to the policies that they have pushed the Republicans to adopt,\u201d Wasserman Schultz said. \u201cBut I think it\u2019ll be, at the end of the day, a Wisconsin-based election, and like I said, across the rest of the country and including in Wisconsin, President Obama is ahead.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Timidity to the point of paralysis.<\/p>\n<p>You have a major election, near on a make or break issue, for organized labor, and the DNC is afraid to expend any resources, because it&#8217;s not a slam dunk.<\/p>\n<p>It is no wonder that George &#8220;If you not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time&#8221; McClellan was a Democratic presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the folks that they are disappointing won&#8217;t vote for Mitt, but I think that they won&#8217;t canvass or stuff envelopes for you either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because our so-called leaders are cowardly incompetents: The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said Friday that if Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) doesn\u2019t prevail over Gov. Scott Walker (R) in next month\u2019s Wisconsin recall election, there won\u2019t be any ramifications for Democrats nationally. \u201cI think, honestly, there aren\u2019t going to be any repercussions,\u201d Rep. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1023,978,982,1022,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-labor","category-politics","category-stupid","category-union","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}