So it looks like the Democrats flushed $13M down the toilet backing a sure loser in AR

[jgraz]

How'd that work out for ya, Rahm?

[Nite Owl]

1. I just got in

how badly did Lincoln do?

[jgraz]

3. They're calling it with 0 precincts reporting and 0% of the vote in.

That's what you call an ass kicking.

[Nite Owl]

24. Now that is really bad!

[polichick]

2. Good ol' Rahm bailed before he had to answer for it. nt

[Tatiana]

4. Unreal. Someone like Conway could have used that money. n/t

[jgraz]

34. Nice to see a few people getting the point.

This is Rahm's debacle tonight. Please, never let that guy near national politics again (unless he wants to "help" the Repugs ;) )

[Kitsune]

5. This. This this this. A thousand times this.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Rec'd you back to 0

:eyes:

I couldn't agree with you more. What a waste.

[stray cat]

7. The dems got a conservative in AR - yet they cheer the outcome in wv

Are you truly celebrating putting a hard conservative in charge in arkansas

[jgraz]

15. You seem a bit unclear on the concept of "celebrating"

None of what's happening tonight calls for celebration.

[Poboy]

8. Lawrence ODonnel was just trying to pin this on progressives.

[me b zola]

16. I saw that. Ugh

IIRC, Halter was polling withing the margin of error against the repub during the primaries, Lincoln never had a chance according to those polls at the time. O'Donnell is dead wrong about this.

[Historic NY]

9. Yeah think how much the Wrestling lady spent...........ROFLMAO

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[jgraz]

12. Yep, my DU posts upset the President's eleventy-dimensional chess match

I didn't realize I had so much power. :eyes:

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[jgraz]

22. Too bad there wasn't a strategy in place to deal with that.

If you lose politically, you employed a losing political strategy. No two ways about it.

[krispos42]

39. Yes, let's just look forward and forget the past

Forget Reagan, Bush, Rahm, Kristol, Lieberman... after all, it's the past. It can have absolutely no bearing on the future!

[depakid]

11. Way to create a bright contrast between the parties!

and fire up key constituencies.

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

13. I wonder if the assholes who kept 38 out of 40 polling places closed during the primary

now regret their decision?

Oh.... silly Me. That would require them to have a conscience. Which DLC'ers do not have. :(

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[jgraz]

21. Yep, the irrelevant left turned her into an unelectable corporate drone

Is that really the spin you want to go with tonight? Seriously?

[scarletwoman]

17. Precisely.

What's that saying? Oh yeah -- how very "fucking ________" of them.

[spooky3]

18. how much have Fiorina and Whitman spent?

[tnlefty]

35. Millions, but

none of it from democratic coffers. They shit their own money, for the most part, down the toilet.

[Arugula Latte]

19. Disgusting.

[Bitwit1234]

23. Well you hate to say it but since Arkansas had a republican

in Democrat clothing we now know that seat is really republican. She screwed herself.

[Scurrilous]

25. We should put you in charge next election.

:thumbsup:

[Kalun D]

43. Anybody

Would be better than the CORPORATISTS disguised as dems that have ruined it for the real dems.

[sandnsea]

26. Again - I thought gravedancers were supposed to GO AWAY n/t

[JTFrog]

27. +1 n/t

[USArmyParatrooper]

29. Nail meet Head. +1

[jgraz]

30. Ah, the new talking point for tonight: anything critical of Dem strategy is "gravedancing"

Next time, try a little subtlety.

[sandnsea]

32. Said the same thing in Grayson gravedancing thread

You won. You won't get the corporatist Obama agenda anymore. Isn't that enough for you?

[jgraz]

33. You seem unclear on a basic concept: NOBODY won in AR

The only people who won were corporations and the uber-rich, the same people who were winning under Blanche Lincoln.

Bill Halter was the right choice, but the D.C. Dems went in another direction... which turned out to be a disaster.

[sandnsea]

36. Arkansas went Republican. Period.

That's all there is to it. Bill Halter would have been no more liberal than Blanche Lincoln. It's a conservative state. Get it??

If you don't start doing something about countering the LIES, they'll keep on voting just like they did tonight. Like they did in Missouri. And Indiana. And Kentucky. Hello??? Wake the fuck up.

[jgraz]

37. Two things that would have happened if Obama had backed Halter

1. It would have put the fear o' god into other DINOs like Ben Nelson

2. It would have fired up the base to see Obama cracking the whip on the party he's theoretically heading.


and possibly

3. Halter would have won the primary and had a much better shot at the general.


Losing political strategy is losing.

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[USArmyParatrooper]

28. That's right, tell them jgraz! In YO FACE Dems!

[jgraz]

31. So... you were in favor of this losing strategy.

Good to know. When the dust clears tomorrow, you're gonna have a lot of 'splainin to do.

[Duke Newcombe]

38. I see what you did there...

...and I agree with it. Another Dem with no spine goes down. When will they learn, when people have a choice between Republican Lite and the real thing, they'll choose the real every time?

[laughingliberal]

40. K & R nt

[bertman]

41. Agree, jgraz. Rec.

[jgraz]

42. Boozman 57%, Lincoln 37%

Nicely done, Rahm. :banghead:

[speppin]

45. She was bad news from day one. Rahm should have know better.

[jgraz]

46. Well, the problem with that is...

Rahm was also bad news from day one.

[chill_wind]

47. The irony here burns. The Gibbs WH attacking the unions

in this whole bad saga just months ago is not to be forgotten.

[KamaAina]

48. Could Halter possibly have done any worse than that?

I sincerely doubt it.

Shed no tears for Blanche, though. They're warming up a seat for her on the Wal-Mart board even as we speak. :eyes: