Posted on 06/22/2017 7:27:22 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Jon Ossoff’s loss in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional election on Tuesday isn’t just a disappointment for liberals. It’s a bright red warning sign, a blaring siren that should alert Democrats everywhere that they will not take back Congress without a radical change in direction.
It looked to some like the party could retake at least one branch in Congress in 2018 just by staying the course. “I don’t think Democrats want a new direction,” House Minority Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said on CBS Face the Nation the week after the election.
But since then, Democrats have lost four straight special elections in races for Congress. Top party leaders are defending those losses as representing improvements on the party's baseline. But they at least to appear to suggest that winning the House will be harder than it first seemed. And panic is beginning to seep in.
Pelosi is too toxic, Rep. Filemon Vela of Texas, first elected to Congress in 2012, told Vox on Wednesday.
“To me it’s real simple: The perception of leader Pelosi is so negative that we are not going to be able to walk away from that,” Vela said. “In order to take the House majority back you have to be able to win swing districts ... the perceptions of the leader are so entrenched, they’re not going to change, and the Republican Party is going to continue to spend millions and millions of dollars to tie the leader, who is very unpopular, to those areas.”
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Maybe they should double down on their war against God.
Lol, best President evah!
Progressing through the 4 or 5 stages of defeat. There has been a long denial stage.
The great thing about giving the dems good advice is that if they try to follow it, they will fight with each other in a big way over who will be the new leader and what will be their new direction. The reason they are sticking with Pelosi is because any change will result in instant civil war.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. that’s The Emperor’s idea of shrinking in the face of virulent lies. GOPe goes whaa?
poor lil libs are in a pickle.
They desperately need to get rid of Pelosi ... but the far left wont let them!
lol
And if they don’t... they will have her name held over the head of everyone running for office in 2 years. And if they do ... the left wing will throw a tantrum and will split the party!
woot! get the popcorn out guys!
I really don't think the good people of GA06 care anything about Pelosi, but I have no problem with Dems running in this (obviously wrong) direction. I won't stand in their way....
Pelosi is old guard, and has to be purged. I suggest someone less melanin-challenged, a globalist antisemitic trans-person, to represent their current demographics.
If you're a lefty's guardian, best hide the cutlery and english to Arabic dictionaries.
Look, lefties, look at what you did to former congressman Gary Eugene “Gene” Taylor from Mississippi’s 4th congressional district from 1989 to 2011 (numbered as the 5th District from 1989 to 2003).
You, the left, trashed the man because he was a blue dog democrat and not progressive enough for you.
Left, if you ever want to take back the Senate/House/White House, Gene Taylor is the model you should be looking for, not Keith Ellison (a mooselim) or a Barney Frank type...How about a Patriotic, red blooded, American veteran, that goes to church, loves God and his family...short of that...enjoy your a$$ kicking.
I think they really thought this one was going to be the end of the bloodshed and the beginning of the turnaround.
Panic is probably setting in pretty hard.
“Don’t throw Nanzi in the briar patch!”
Yeah! I’m pretty sure President Trump posts here, reading and speaking our minds as he does.
I’m not saying he’s Red Badger—but he’s `Red Badger’!
Hillary lost.
Now they want Pelosi out as head of their party.
Seems the Democrats are blaming WOMEN for their losses.
It didn’t even take four to get them to turn to murder and attempted murder.
Trump is right on....The Democrat Party is dying on the vine, politically, killed by its hate & envy of both POTUS, Donald J. Trump and the American people/nation!!! Getting rid of Democrat House Leader, Pelosi is a joke...the whole party needs to be made over, with the birth of a 100% “CENTRIST” political party. Anything less then that, and the Democrat Party is centered & housed, in its own created political death coffin!!!
First two moves...get rid of any association with Barack Hussein Obama & Hillary Clinton. I’ll leave the rest corrective actions to the Democrats themselves, for it is mega adjustments needed to destroy the liberal, left-wing progressive cancer that infects and will destroy the Party!!!
The Five Republican victories and the Iowa Trump Rally last evening shows the American people where the political power is now centered in this great country of ours...with Donald J. Trump and the vast majority of the American people!!!
Democrats...change......or game over!!!
The Dem Party is sooooo faaaarr to the Left now because they have ‘purged’ every single last bit of conservatism from their ranks in favor of Progressive Purity that they cannot and will not bring themselves back to the political center.
They have created a party of myrmidon group-think thugs and they will have to live with their Frankenstein.
They cannot, in ONE ELECTION CYCLE, shed their skin and make people think they have moderated their stances on anything.
With Maxine Waters and Keith Ellison carrying their banner, and Chuck Schumer cheer leading from behind, that would be nigh impossible...............
You got that right. The Congressional Black Caucus will demand the new leader be back. The Hispanics will want a Hispanic. Likewise the LGBTXYZ gang. As you said, it would be an instant civil war.
And please keep your chairmen of the party.
Lunatic liberal Perez and Moslem Keith “Sharia law” Ellison
are the poster boys for everything wrong with the Democrat party and liberalism in general. It’s embarrassing, but fun to see them.in action.
Looks to me like Nancy’s staying power is based on a secret Dummycrat deal.......Harry got dumped but they got to keep Nancy.
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