The Far-Left Wins Nothing. Again.

[Jim Lane]

156. In an extraordinarily stupid linked article, my pick for stupidest statement of them all....

The competition is fierce, but I end up going with the comparison between Rush Holt and Ralph Nader. ("The far-left fumbled the ball again. They did it by supporting Ralph Nader in 2000....&quot

In the continual DU wars about Nader's 2000 candidacy, I've been firmly aligned with those who criticized Nader. My major point has always been that we have open primaries. Progressives who aren't satisfied with the "establishment" Democratic candidate(s) should challenge them in the primary, where there's no risk that dividing the left will elect the Republican. Then, if you lose, you almost always vote for the lesser evil in the general election.

That's exactly what Rush Holt did. As a proud Holt voter, I will now join him in voting for the corporate tool Booker.

Runners-up for stupidest statement? Well, we get some strong contenders just by completing the sentence where I used ellipsis: "The far-left fumbled the ball again. They did it by supporting Ralph Nader in 2000, they did it by supporting John Edwards in 2008 (can you imagine the disastrous Edwards presidency?), they did it by teaming up with Grover Norquist to kill the healthcare reform bill, they did it by primary-challenging Democrats in 2010 and they did it by threatening to primary-challenge President Obama in 2012."

So, if some people on DU hadn't expressed the wish to see Dean or Sanders or Kucinich or someone like that mount a primary challenge in 2012, then Obama would have given us a seat at the table and would by now be pursuing an aggressively liberal policy. He's supporting chained CPI just to spite us far-left types.

Hmmm, I may have to reconsider my pick.