Dipshit Andrea Mitchel just said DEMS were never interested in Judge confirmations....

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6. I heard that: she's talking about midterms, and she is correct. Dems historically do not show up...

...for midterm elections in the same numbers as the GOP faithful. It is not being a "dipshit" to say so.

Historically, Dem voters want the excitement (or something) of voting the top of the ticket every four years.

The GOP has been taking the Long View for decades -- midterms are when they trot out initiatives and propositions that may not have a chance in hell of passing (or maybe they will) but get the juices pumping: God, Guns, and Gays, typically. And while those Republican voters are in the voting booth, they vote for Republican candidates, and those candidates become office holders, fill the US Congress and State Houses, appoint judges, and make the laws.

Not so the majority of Democrats, apparently, or we would not have gerrymandered districts and GOP control top to bottom in Washington. Or we could just SHOW UP.

Just one last thing -- I've been here a long time, starting in Dubya's misbegotten reign. Our first opportunity to throw him out was not the massive protests in Washington, but the election cycle. But among our political junkies here, people who should know better, there were knock-down drag-out fights over good Democratic candidates who didn't fulfill every progressive fantasy -- so some people were gonna stay home or vote 3rd Party. I started just saying SCOTUS, SCOTUS, SCOTUS. But no -- that wasn't any fun at all. This nonsense didn't start yesterday.