[sickoflibs]

RE :”Today, the same liberal worldview and wishful thinking that fueled the pundits’ “GOP purge-and-die” narrative in 2009 is causing them to miss the more dangerous purge that threatens the Democrats now.
In 2006, Democrats built a congressional majority by embracing and convincing pro-gun, pro-life moderates to run in marginal states and districts. They have since lost many of these in the House, and liberals are now in the process of purging them from the Senate.
Until Monday, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., had been acting like a man seeking re-election — raising $1.5 million in the first quarter and attempting to distance himself from Obamacare.
But Baucus had just voted against the gun control measures that President Obama had been pushing. And in response, Organizing for Action — the post-campaign version of Obama’s campaign — announced it would be mobilizing activists to shame and pressure Baucus and the three other Democrats who had voted against gun control.
Baucus, already polling badly and facing a tough re-election, needed that like he needed a hole in his head. Who could blame him for hanging it up early?”

This article picked up on something I noticed by watching the Democrat channel.

As recently as a few months ago just this year libs were celebrating a simple story of conservatives purging the GOP ranks to create a super-minority pure R party and Dem majority. This was a Major theme of theirs for a long time,
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But as the author correctly says, Pelosi Dems welcomed the 100% NRA rated Dems into the party so they would win so big in 2006, 2008 and 2012.

But now they are purging their own for not joining the Gun safety vote team. Only a few months later.

This is what beating Dems gets. Seeing them mad for a change.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

There’s just a tiny bit more to consider re Baucus’ decision than simply pointing at the Guns/No guns vote. In fact, any worries he might have had about losing the NRA vote (or their opponents) in Montana are way down the list of reasons why he’s going away.

(I’ll go in reverse order...)

4) The Montana dems absolutely pulled out all the stops to get Baucus’ sidekick Tester re-elected: Massive and mostly out-of-state funding, nationally based (read Union money) ad campaigns mostly aimed at slandering opposition into oblivion and finally vote buying/outright fraud on a scale that has outraged everybody (outside of the ‘rats and their ever-pliant buddies in the “news” media here). And after all of that, Tester “won” by a bit over two thousand votes.

3) One of the other elections that went on while the dems concentrated on Tester wound up replacing the ‘rat Attorney General (who’d at the very least turned a blind eye to the antics noted above) with a guy with enough Tea Party tendencies that our “news” guys have taken to totally ignoring him. Which I take as indication that those antics and the people pulling ‘em are both in peril.

2) While the economy in Montana isn’t totally in the toilet, the *only* reasons it ain’t are the Keystone pipeline and The Bakken, both of which are threatened, Baucus along with the rest of the ‘rats haven’t done diddly squat to support ‘em and Max’s usual practice of buying votes with Federal program money can’t get within light years of making up the difference.

...and finally Number One) Can you spell OBAMACARE? Baucus was one of the named authors, he spent most of his time after they got that mess rammed through promoting it, the state dems went all in supporting Baucus on it (along with, of course, the “news” media) and after a three-year all out maximum effort their internal polls probably class it as a half-point above poking a sharp stick up your butt.

Tea Party (aka Montana Shrugged) has been raising royal h*** over that issue to the point that even the media here slips up and calls it Obamacare, most people you talk with here look forward to it about as much as an epidemic or having Yellowstone erupt and don’t even bother mentioning the reaction you get from a business owner (if you can locate one who’s not shutting down and leaving).

JMHO, O****care is the albatross around Max’s neck, and he deserves to have it there forever. The only reason the media’s blaming it on NRA/2nd Amendment votes is that’s their Really Big Deal right now, and they can’t afford any distractions.

Especially not this one.