"He [Christie] is a moderate Democrat."

[BlueCaliDem]

15. It's more than a theory. It's become proven fact, 1SBM.

I see it everywhere, on every MB. I read it in blog posts by so-called Liberal bloggers who excoriate the president and Democrats for not being more liberal. I see it here, on DU.

And although these professional (and non-professional) critics do ultimately cast their vote for Democrats, their heightened (and sometimes incredibly unfair) criticism of this president and Democrats only add to the political fire lobbed at all Democrats that the Republicans appear exclusively to get away with in our Corporate Media.

They just don't seem to understand that the Democratic Party and the center-left to left American voters are surrounded by the enemy: the GOP, Corporate American, Teabaggers, and Fundamentalist Xtrians. Collectively, they own every major bullhorn in this country that it's difficult, in some States even impossible, for Democrats to get their message out.

So, in essence, they aid and abet the enemy, even though they can't see it, even when they only see their constant complaints and cynicism is conducive to changing the course of the Democratic Party, not realizing that their cynicism and complaints tend to dishearten a-political voters that we need in order to win elections. This opens up a path for Republicans to win back power that's 180 degrees against everything these well-meaning people on the Left claim to believe in - as we've seen in 2010.