Getting Smarter About Politics

[Raine1967]

8. maybe you missed this part:

And before you scream at me and call me a liar, go look it up. I have. As bad as some Blue Dog rhetoric is at times, the people who replaced them are far more odious. Yet PUBs and pro lefties continue to brag that they have “purged” almost the entire Blue Dog Caucus from Congress. Strangely, the same people don’t take credit for helping create the Tea Party Caucus, despite the fact that every Blue Dog “purged” was replaced with a teabagger. How can a “progressive” brag about replacing Democrats who vote 80% of the time or more with teabaggers who vote with Democrats 0% of the time?

I don't have to look it up.

One of my biggest problems with the 50 state strategy (I liked it a lot and wanted to to continue to become stronger) was that we got politically weak blue dogs. Instead of having the backing of progressives trying to push them to the left they were voted out.

It goes back to what this person is saying.

So, it's not funny. They lost in the generals for the very damn reason this was written. Look it up.

I suggest reading the article again. It's pretty good.