[Cincinatus' Wife]

The comments came at the first ever conference of the State Innovation Exchange (SiX), the Left’s attempt to counter conservative policy successes that have followed Republican victories at the state level.

Described in this Slate OpEd:

"The Democratic Party’s losses at the state level are almost unprecedented, and could cripple it for a long time to come."

"........With that said, there are more costs to Democratic weakness in the states than just House elections. States are where parties build talent and try new ideas. Here, the GOP is instructive. Its brightest stars are either governors (Scott Walker, John Kasich, and Chris Christie) or former state officeholders (Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Joni Ernst). And Republican-controlled statehouses have been incubators for conservative ideas, from experiments in tax cutting (Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana and Sam Brownback’s Kansas) to full-fledged assaults on public-sector unions (Walker’s Wisconsin and Christie’s New Jersey). In all likelihood, the next Republican president will either come from the states, or will borrow his approach from the present generation of GOP governors. Likewise, if Democrats win the White House for a third term, they’ll face opposition from Congress and empowered Republican majorities at the state level. Indeed, if not for statehouse Republicans, the Affordable Care Act would be a smoother project, with broader buy-in for exchanges and the Medicaid expansion.

Democrats might have strong national prospects in the form of Hillary Clinton, but they have little to look to in the states. Only a few places stand as incubators for progressive strategies and ideas, and nationwide, Democrats have close to nothing in the way of a bench for federal and statewide office. The liberal counterparts to Walker, Christie, Brownback, and Mike Pence—ideologically motivated governors with national profiles—don’t exist. And as a result, liberals can’t point to a forward-looking agenda that exists outside the bounds of the presidency......"

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

And even if they do get a seat at the table, argues Greg Sargent for the Washington Post, there’s still the problem of population distribution; even in blue states, most Democratic voters are crammed in a handful of urban areas, which dilutes their strength in House elections. Sargent quotes David Wasserman (also of the Cook Political Report): “If Democrats were to get neutral maps drawn by God in all 50 states, they would still fall well short of winning back the House,” says Wasserman. “What Democrats really need is a massive resettlement program.”.... (Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...

Front Page: “What Democrats Really Need is a Massive Resettlement Program.”..... "If only there were some sort of program that could “resettle” likely Democratic voters in America. Say a refugee program. And maybe tie that in with open borders and assorted incentives and it looks a whole lot like a resettlement program.

And now you know the rest of the story."

[ronnie raygun]

“Just a few years back he would be getting my coffee” Clinton in the presence of fat heat ted about Obama,
He’s a nice black man because of the way he speaks, he doesnt speak like the rest” joe biden. Senator fat head ted talking about sandwiching interns, bubba and his sexual encounters as president, Oh I forgot and so did the liberal group investigating conservatives, these guys are exempt

[Mark17]

The leader of a group hoping to improve liberals' fortunes at the state level revealed on Friday plans to start tracking conservative state legislators based on the assumption that "someone’s going to say something about black people" or women.

F them.

[Cowboy Bob]

But what if people really don’t care?

The racist name calling has been overplayed. That’s why white people are fleeing the Democrat party.

[Bon mots]

SEXIST!
I don't see any womyn in Obama's Secret Service detail? They are generals in the army, fit to be soldiers, equal to men, yet not a single one in the President's Secret Service Detail?

How sexist.

[CIB-173RDABN]

This will fail for the simple reason they already own the people who would be offended by “sexist or racist” remarks.

As someone else has posted, they have overplayed the race card and the sexist card.

They have declared that if you have light skin you are a racist, and if you are male, you are sexist.

The irony of those statements is lost on the socialist left who would remake America into a socialist utopia.

[ScottinVA]

The “media” have been playing this role for decades... laying traps and ensnaring Repubs and Conservatives in their words, spoken and unspoken. This is nothing our side isn’t already facing. People on the good side simply have to watch their words and avoid the Akin-Mourdick Syndrome.

[sphinx]

The comments came at the first ever conference of the State Innovation Exchange (SiX), the Left’s attempt to counter conservative policy successes that have followed Republican victories at the state level.

Here in a nutshell is the difference between the parties. The Democrats plan to respond to Republican policy successes by intensifying the gaffe patrol and doubling down on identify politics.

There is not a word said about countering Republican policy successes by contesting the battle of ideas and developing a coherent set of alternative policies.

[jughandle]

“I think we know, someone’s going to say something about black people.”

And why would you belittle colored people by telling them what to be offended by? They have a brain also and can think for themselves.

[sergeantdave]

Another operation from the Nazi Soros. BTW, Nick Rathod of SIX is a racist and a sexist.

[1010RD]

Come see the Democrat Idea Environment in Illinois. DIE is killing this state.

[txrangerette]

Leftists say awful things about Blacks and Women all the time.

Just ask Clarence Thomas, Tim Scott, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman - I could go on.

The Left is an ugly propaganda machine practicing the politics of personal destruction.

Meanwhile, this is cover while they take over and destroy the nation bit by bit by exercising raw, illegitimate, unconstitutional power.

[Uncle Miltie]

Sign me up!

Murder Rate for Black Americans Is Four Times the National Average

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/murder-rate-for-black-ame_b_4702228.html

[fella]

That’s a two edged sword that those leftys want to wield there, it cuts to the left as well as to the right. Just look at what the North Korean GOP is doing to Sony right now.

[depressed in 06]

It is no longer, enough, to allege it now?

[HotHunt]

Typical liberal think. We can't beat them on ideas so let's play "gotcha" to see if we can catch them off-guard. Ad hominem attacks will follow, but nothing from the liberals on countering the policies or ideas from conservatives. They have nothing. Calling someone a racist or sexist (trust me, if Cankles gets into office, this will be the new smear they'll use instead of racist) is getting very tiresome and as with many things that are overused, people aren't startled or offended by these liberal attacks anymore.

This effort by them will fail.

[SkiKnee]

Quoted from the article:

"... I think we know, someone’s going to say something about black people. Someone’s going to say something about women. Someone is going to say something.”

I think we know, Democrat policies are failures whenever they're enacted. Democrats have no way to defend their failed policies. Therefor, Democrats must attack and destroy the character of their opposition by screaming racism, sexism, homophobia at every miniscule utterance. Democrats know that Conservative ideas actually work so they must destroy the individual conservatives. They know with their propaganda wing in the LSM it will be easy. We all know that it is now racist to sing "White Christmas", how difficult can it be to discover racism in the most innocuous mutterings of any conservative?

[Lazamataz]

State Innovation Exchange (SiX)

Shouldn't they change their name to SiXSiXSiX, to honor their Lord and Master?