{"id":187317,"date":"2013-04-08T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/08\/what-is-wrong-with-democratic-political-class-in-one-phrase\/"},"modified":"2013-04-08T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T01:37:00","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-democratic-political-class-in-one-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/08\/what-is-wrong-with-democratic-political-class-in-one-phrase\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Wrong With Democratic Political Class in One Phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that they think that the biggest strength that a candidate can have is he or she, “doesn\u2019t have particularly strong views<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Because, I guess, nothing always beats something:<\/p>\n

Democratic Party officials believe that Kevin Strouse is exactly the kind of candidate who can help them retake the House next year.<\/span>

<\/span> He\u2019s a smart, young former Army Ranger \u2014 good qualities for any aspiring politician. But what party leaders really like is that Strouse doesn\u2019t have particularly strong views on the country\u2019s hottest issues<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>

<\/span> Immigration? Tax policy? \u201cCertainly I have a lot of research to do,\u201d Strouse acknowledged in an interview Thursday as he announced his candidacy in a suburban Philadelphia House district.<\/span>

<\/span> Strouse\u2019s candidacy reflects an emerging Democratic strategy for taking back the House from Republicans after the tea party takeover of 2010.<\/span>

<\/span> The best way to defeat the conservative, ideologically driven GOP, Democrats say, is to field non-ideological \u201cproblem solvers\u201d who can profit from the fed-up-with-partisanship mood of some suburban areas. These districts will offer some of the few competitive House campaigns in the country.<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cYou pick your strategic high ground and force them to fight on it,\u201d said Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has begun a particularly early effort at traveling the country and working the phones to lure Strouse and others like him into races.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Steve Israel was, until he wanted a leadership position, he was a one of the Quisling Blue Dog Caucus, and his goal is to restore the decimated Benedict Arnold Blue Dog Caucus, because the f%$#ing Blue Dogs were so<\/b> good for the party in the past.<\/p>\n

In any case, be aware that this sort of mind bogglingly stupidity is from the person trying to pick and choose Democratic Party nominees for the US House of Representatives, and he is bragging<\/b> about this bit of lunacy.<\/p>\n

Choose your own candidates.  Don’t give to the DCCC, because they will waste your money on bullsh%$ like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that they think that the biggest strength that a candidate can have is he or she, “doesn\u2019t have particularly strong views.” Because, I guess, nothing always beats something: Democratic Party officials believe that Kevin Strouse is exactly the kind of candidate who can help them retake the House next year. He\u2019s a smart, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187317"}],"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=187317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}