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[RandySF]

1. She IS at risk of burning through her good will before she gets to Washington.

[Wwcd]

13. I've heard the same thing throughout my national circles & the energy that was

first strongly behind her is growing in disappointment.
She'll always have her loyalists but the growing sentiment being mentioned is that she is being simply marketed, with nothing there to really buy into but a campaign ad. She is turning off many who first applauded her entrance.

They are looking closer to her experience in governing & finding nothing to support the claims she makes.

They are seeing it as just more of the same old 'Money & Media' candidate being marketed.
And many are turned off by her lack of attacking Republicans, while she targets Dems.
That is becoming obvious & its causing suspicion as to her motives.

They're mostly fed up with the oversell of Trump in 2016, and are simply looking at credible experience next time they cast a ballot.
They are finding she has little experience to judge her qualifications on.

I have to agree to some extent.
Blame the oversell of Trump 2016 that has made people wary & turned voters away.

They want more than words & well crafted campaign ads next time.
Can't say I blame them.
I wish her good luck & the grace of wisdom.

[melman]

31. lol

[George II]

33. Based on how she's already gone on the attack against several highly respected Democrats....

....it could be that her "good will" is wearing perilously thin.

[Power 2 the People]

2. Rest easy

The answer to your question is NO.

[dameatball]

3. I think that many people that run for office have a big head. Otherwise, why put up with the BS?

Out of all the things we have to worry about at this moment, this is pretty low on the list. I do get your drift, but let it play out a bit. She is now our candidate. Vote for her and worry about the other stuff later.
There are quite a few Democratic candidates out there right now. Too early to throw darts in my opinion. Although I do not see her happening in 2020.....who the hell saw Trump for real in 2014....maybe a few.

[H2O Man]

4. No.

[SarasotaDem]

36. NO

just getting started

[melman]

5. No

She's fantastic.

[Dawson Leery]

6. She is going to have as much goodwill as the "Freedom Caucus" if she keeps this up.

Someday Democrats will be back in power and I want them to be able to govern effectively.

[Tatiana]

7. It sounds like she's trying to help elect people who will actually help us fight

the Freedom Caucus and fascist thugs who have co-opted our government.

I can't be mad at that.

[Demsrule86]

18. This sort of thing could cost us a majority...and many she is going after are good Democrats... she

has no business going to purple or red states.

[George II]

37. By going against a well-respected, prominent member of the Congressional Black Caucus?

He isn't helping us fight the Freedom Caucus?

[Blue_true]

53. What Congressional Black Caucus rep are you referring to? nt

[elleng]

43. Yes, it does sound like that.

Sadly, some aren't prepared for or interested in it.

[Voltaire2]

8. Please stop.

[eleny]

9. .

..... .....

[Cha]

10. I was wary of her from

the beginning when she tried to refight the primaries @SenatorDuckworth.

And, unfortunately it hasn't gotten any better with her flying off the handle and attacking Joe Crowley on Twitter for "mounting" a 3rd party campaign to run against her.

Link to tweet

Oh and she's..

Ocasio-Cortez to campaign against Democrat Congressman William Clay in St. Louis

Clay is a progressive incumbent.. And he's a highly respected member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210867566#top

[Squinch]

16. Yeahhhh... jeopardizing a safe Dem seat is pretty dumb.

[Wwcd]

23. Wow! Has she said how she feels about electing more minorities?

Is electing minorities part of her platform?
Just asking.
Its a big deal !

[Demsrule86]

28. I don't know-she is helping a Challenger out with a primary against a Congressional Black caucus

Member...posted on this thread.

[txliberal2016]

51. She's helping Cori Bush a black Woman

Wouldn’t she likely become a member of the CBC

[nini]

32. I'm with you Cha

I don't trust her farther than I can throw her.

I've seen this song and dance before.

[Cha]

44. yeah, we have, nini.. too

damn familiar.. I wonder why? lol rhetorical

[R B Garr]

39. Cha, good post. There were two sentences in the very first ad I saw of hers that

clued me in. It's all playing out pretty much how I thought based on her own word selection from day one.

[Cha]

45. Wow.. I never saw

any ads but I can imagine how they were easy for you to spot.. not like we haven't had our fill of those kinds of "words"

Unfortunately it's playing out how I thought it would, too, from the second I saw her Trying to refight the primaries @Senator Duckworth.. and then there were those trying to shout us down that it was all Tammy's fault!

RB Mahalo!

[R B Garr]

49. Exactly! A few of the buzz words and you can tell where it's all going.

Her campaign ads were posted here and I watched with an open mind, but those OR words stuck out.

You've had great posts on this.

If she hasn't even started her campaign yet against the Republican, I agree that she might be in for a surprise. Campaigning against Democrats is really not needed right now, and I think most people know that.....

Mahalo Cha!

[Blue_true]

54. Who is running against Clay?

The guess is that if the challenger wins, that person will be a member of the CBC.

[BeyondGeography]

11. Iknowrite?

It’s like she sees the need to help change the country or something.

[Demsrule86]

20. My fear is she 'changes' it by costing us a majority that we could have had...she needs to go back

to New York... and knock this off. I hope she wins but she has no business interfering in states like Missouri and Delaware.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Would you be saying this about a white man? Please don't answer here. Just ponder the question in

your heart.

[Voltaire2]

14. The hypocrisy of some people here supporting a third party

spoiler against the Democratic nominee is stunning.

[Squinch]

34. Why would you try to gin up that made up controversy?

You know that's not what anyone is doing. So why would you pretend it is?

[radius777]

52. "We must open up the Democratic Party!"

said Berners... the irony and hypocrisy of a democratic socialist independent and his acolytes (of which AOC is one) whining about the existence of a third party line (Crowley) that isn't even actively campaigning and has said will support the Dem nominee (much more than she would've done for him if he won) is rich indeed.

[Demsrule86]

21. Yes I would...and have. This has to do with risking a majority.

[Cha]

30. Sure would... why the hell would you be bringing

a "white man" into this discussion?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

40. Of course not WG... the double standard is amazing!

[radius777]

48. Aren't Berners against 'identity politics'?

Seems hypocritical for AOC/fans to try to play that card now.

Berners also viciously attacked Hillary for her ambition.

[sheshe2]

50. You did not ask me, yet I will answer.

Yes, I would and I have, recently.

[Squinch]

15. That whole third party brouhaha was an unforced error. You only get one or.two of those,

and she's used one.

[RandySF]

19. Strike Two(?)

She going to St. Louis to campaign against progressive congressman William Clay who is a prominent member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

[Squinch]

22. Yeah, I just saw that. I really liked her when I first saw her,

but working to unseat safe Dems is pretty unforgivable in the current climate.

[Wwcd]

27. It is. The backlash to this move of hers into a State she does not represent is kinda

starting to piss off a lot of people who applauded her at first.

[Cha]

41. Good.. I wasn't on board since she

tried to refight the primaries @Senator Duckworth and, of course, got excoriated by some.

A lot I cared.

Ocasio-Cortez to campaign against Democratic Congressman William Clay in St. Louis

Clay is a progressive incumbent.. And he's a highly respected member of the Congressional Black Caucus

.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210867566

Wwcd

[Demsrule86]

24. Wow...just wow. Well, it is official...don't like her...still hope she wins of course as she is a

Democrat...but that is it.

[Squinch]

25. There's no question she will win, and that's good. Now we

need to hope she doesn't cost any other Dems their seats.

[R B Garr]

26. Wow! That is nasty. What would happen if William Clay encouraged

someone to campaign against her. She already couldn't handle something she misconstrued.

[Nanjeanne]

29. No.

[lapucelle]

35. I'd like to see her taking on more Republicans. N/T

[leftstreet]

38. If she wanted to 'blow up' the party, she'd have run independent

my, my, my

[dembotoz]

42. looks like she is finding out some of the knives in her back have a democrat hand on them.

[mcar]

47. A "Democrat" hand?

[sheshe2]

55. Hmmmmm

[Iggo]

46. LOL

Stop! Yer killin' me!

[bigtree]

56. this is a Democratic nominee

...this kind of attack should be off-bounds here.

The attacks on AOC, ironically, began with concern about her winning the seat. It's evolved into an apparent attempt to take her down before she even faces her republican opponent in the election.

This is a Democratic board and Democrats should find support here, unless they do something to violate our Democratic compact. Exercising her political right to participate in this election and to freely associate with (and oppose in the primary, those Democrats she may disagree with (like voters do), should not be the subject of scorn or derision here.