DEMOCRATS Don't Forget: Come Out And Vote On Tuesday Nov. 11, 2014
Posted on 10/22/2014 1:22:30 PM PDT by ModernDayCato
After a few days of trying to ignore the question, Michelle Nunn, the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Georgia, acknowledged on Friday that she had voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. By this year’s standards, that’s pretty forthright, especially compared with Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat running for the Senate in Kentucky, who refuses to discuss her presidential vote.
Only one Democratic Senate candidate this cycle has been willing to appear with the president on the stump: Gary Peters in Michigan. The others have spent months keeping their distance from Mr. Obama and some of his best policies. Even Ms. Nunn just started running a television ad complaining that an attack ad by her Republican opponent, David Perdue, featured a misleading photo of her and Mr. Obama. The photo was actually taken at an event honoring President George H.W. Bush, she said.
The panicky Democratic flight away from President Obama — and from some of the party’s most important positions — is not a surprise. Mr. Obama remains highly unpopular among white voters, particularly in Southern states where candidates like Ms. Nunn, Ms. Grimes and several others are struggling to establish leads. But one of the reasons for his unpopularity is that nervous members of his own party have done a poor job of defending his policies over the nearly six years of his presidency, allowing a Republican narrative of failure to take hold.
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She sure got her dad’s good looks.
if the Democrats really want to lose, they should send the New York Times editorial board out to campaign for them.
So now, what people are experiencing in their own, real lives, is just a ‘Republican narrative of failure’ according to this elite liberal editorial board. The millions who have lost their health insurance, lost their doctors, hate rates and deductibles skyrocket believe those aren’t positives because the Democrats haven’t adequately explained to them how this makes them better off and Republicans have lied to them to convince them that these things are bad to have had happen to them.
Oh that’s rich, that the rats haven’t publicly defended Obola’s policies. If they haven’t done so vehemently, they haven’t needed to, when the whole media is his lapdog anyway, starting with the Slimes. All the rat politcians needed to do was let the media do it for them.
DEMOCRATS Don't Forget: Come Out And Vote On Tuesday Nov. 11, 2014
This line made me laugh the most. NONE of his policies are any good!
Few voters know that the 2009 stimulus bill contributed heavily to the nation’s economic recovery, saving and creating 2.5 million jobs. Not a word of it is spoken on the campaign trail, where little credit is also given to the White House for months of promising economic news.
Note that this is from the NYT Editorial Board, i.e.. the condensed wisdom of those big thinkers who lead the NYT's idealogical edge. I just LOVE the saving and creating 2.5 million jobs comment as totally ignoring the work-force participation rate which totally destroys the positive message nor does it include the cost of the 2009 stimulus.
The NY Times says Obama’s low approval ratings aren’t his fault. It’s those cowardly, and apparently stupid, democrats who haven’t defended his policies strongly enough.
“nervous members of his own party have done a poor job of defending his policies over the nearly six years of his presidency, allowing a Republican narrative of failure to take hold.”
Ya see, 0bama is still The Won, and everyone would realize how totally magnificent he is if Democrats did a better job of EXPLAINING his greatness.
Yeah. That’s it!
Possibly because the rest of the country is outraged at its over-reaching, fantastic expense, disastrously incompetent web implementation, and the fact that it was shoved down the country's throat without being debated or even read and without a single Republican vote and against the clearly-polled rejection? Could that be a reason?
They don't get it because they won't get it. If the Dems are running from a toxic political waste dump, the Times spraying it with perfume isn't going to solve the problem.
To even make such a statement, one would have to believe that the policies are actually good, and, more pointedly, that the people are too stupid to understand that they are good policies.
I do indeed think this is what the sanctimonious elitist left believes.
Oh, yes, us white people, especially down South, are just spittin' mad at the fact we have a Black president.
NOT that he is a liar, communist, socialist, favors radical Islam, hates our military, cut the military to the bone, abandoned Iraq, won't protect us from foreign invaders, diseases and terrorists, and is single-handedly trying to lurch the country far more Leftward than even the average democrat voter wants but rather it's all about white prejudice.
To the NYTs, having a Left-wing black as president is perfect. ANY and ALL criticism of him and his policies is racism--the science is settled.
translation: Because these stupid voters don’t realize all of the wonderful things Obama has done for them.
Wow! I have NEVER seen the NYTimes Comments on an article turn so negatively on Obama and the New York Times itself!
Really? This I’ve gotta see. Going to look now.
And wasn’t the stimulus something like $800 billion dollars?
So those “saved” 2.5 million jobs only cost the taxpayers $320,000 a job??? Wow, what a deal. Real genius at work!
the online comments section is closed (after 1146 comments). the nyt apparently will still accept letters to the editor (no doubt especially from democrat party national hq or the white house). the nyt online comment picks are often laughable as well as non-representative.
nyt to democrat candidates: embrace obama. embrace the distaster that is obamacare. embrace the disastrous obama economy.
democrat candidates: embrace the obama suck.
yeah, that’s the ticket!
Are those others 'Rats that voted for ØCare or what? My memory might be a bit shaky, but I seem to recall ALL 'rats voting FOR (or given political dispensation to vote NO if their vote could be spared), and ALL pubbies voting AGAINST.
Clockwise from top left: Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas; Alison Lundergan Grimes, Senate candidate in Kentucky; Michelle Nunn, Senate candidate in Georgia; Senator Mark Begich of Alaska; Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana; Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina
She is top right.
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