Flouting the rules, DNC Finance Chair raises money for Clinton

[KingCharlemagne]

70. My memory is that progressive activists approached Rahm to ask about the

advisability of running progressive primary challengers against Blue Dog incumbents. Rahm told them said strategy was 'retarded'. In the 2010 elections, progressive incumbents held their seats just fine, as progressives turned out to re-elect progressive incumbents. Blue Dog incumbents, by contrast, went down in flames to Tea Party challengers. So Rahm's advice helped lose the House for Dems. Because we'll never know how those districts would have gone had Dems run a Progressive against a TP loon. But give the people a choice between a Repig and a Repig wearing the Democratic label and, as Harry S. Truman noted, the people will pick the genuine Repig every time.

Rahm's strategic approach was an EPIC FAIL. You can call this 'creative speculation' all you want, but Rahm's strategy helped lose the House for Dems in 2010. But in America there are no real consequences for such a strategic failure. In fact, it was almost as if nothing had happened at all.

Ab-so-lutely friggin' incredible.