Speaker Dick Gephardt

[Proud liberal 80]

Remember him?...me neither, and that will be McCarthy’s fate....I see the 2022 midterms being more like 2002 than 1994 or 2010.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections

[liberal N proud]

1. I remember Gephardt because he was our representative at the time

[Proud liberal 80]

3. Yeah I know, I was just being sarcastic

Because he never became speaker

[Polybius]

13. Poor guy made the papers as Kerry's running mate too

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. I remember George Mitchell.

Senate Majority Leader. Total competence and institutional fairness.

Gephardt, not so much. Never impressed me.

[stillcool]

4. I remember him...do I get a prize?

[Proud liberal 80]

7. My point was that he never became Speaker

As will be the case with McCarthy

[mvd]

5. I do. I don't think he was particularly effective

And in more recent years he has lobbied for the health care industry and Boeing. In these roles, he has gone against his previous pro-labor positions.

[UTUSN]

6. Just because somebody was from a past that young people don't know about doesn't mean they

were flops or equate with a modern flop. Many Dems who lived up to the Dem label - intelligent, honorable, accomplished, idealist, ethical - have lost elections or been sidelined by circumstances. I won't waste our time listing all the great Dems who were better in all ways to the Repukes who defeated them. Almost all of us Dems have painful wounds over battles we've lost, including how we all ended up here at DU.

Hardly any Dem is to be equated with McCARTHY or almost any Repuke. As for people who are forgotten, that goes for most people, and some who had *BIG* names in their time. For sure, DRUMPF has been well on his way to being a nobody despite how much jerk ruckus he occupied in the news. No need to drag some Dem to make a point.

[Proud liberal 80]

9. I am not dragging him

My point was to point out that McCarthy thinks he will be speaker in two years because that’s how it usually works, I am pointing out that it didn’t work out for us and Gephardt in 2002...geez

[turtleblossom]

8. From the top of my head, he was the 3 congressional district house of rep in MO?

Haven't heard his name in a very long time. I think he may have been a blue-dog.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. It all comes down to Manchin- if he obstructs, we lose the house, if not, we expand majority. Nt

[Proud liberal 80]

12. Yep, just like in 2010

When Senate Democrats like Ben Nelson actually cost the House Democrats, even though they were doing everything right

[LeftInTX]

11. House minority leader does not make or break elections

Alot can happen between now and 2022...

Although allowing MTG to run wild is not a good idea.....There are seats where the primary determines who will be the Nov. winner.

However, the Proud Boys and Q Anon are not resonating too well with middle class voters at the moment.