Democrats are digging a political hole so deep we may never be able to get out of it?

[Savannahmann]

67. Those farright Republicans

Are in the safest districts. Short of being caught with an underage girl, or boy, there is little chance they'll be defeated. If they are, it will be in a primary, so another farright Republican will get the seat.

That was the pattern in the House in 2010, 2012, and will be the pattern in 2014. Situations like the one that saw the defeat of West in Florida, are the exception, not the rule. You are forgetting they gerrymandered the districts to give those far right politicians the safest seat possible.

So defeating them, not really going to happen. Oh you might get one, or two, if you throw enough money at the problem. But you'll lose twice that many.

An example, I live in Georgia. We have a Representative named Jack Kingston. He'll never lose his seat. They redrew the lines to make sure he's as safe as can be. So sacraficing people, elderly, the kids in head start, to have a chance to paint him as obstrucionist is frankly foolish. Democrats barely put anyone up against him, becaue he's safe as can be where he is.

There are others, lots of others. Our Senators, Do you think we're going to get a Democrat in one of those? Granted it's an open seat in 2014, Isakson is retiring. But do you really think we'll get one? The last Democrat Senator was Zell Miller, need I say more? Hell, Chambliss is more liberal than Miller was.

So what can we do? We can fight, we can fight smart, and we can fight better than we have been. We can make offers that the Right looks foolish refusing, and they don't want to look foolish. We offer to scrap a Navy Ship to afford the programs that matter to the people. We ask the Republicans on TV if they would be willing to give up a couple F-35's so that we can restart Meals on Wheels.

Then, the moderate ones, the ones who are worried about thier seats, will join with us. We win the issue, probably not the house, but the issue. So what is more important, the issue or the power? I say the issue, because real people are really going to suffer while we hope to get power sometime in the future with a plan that hasn't worked in a decade.