I support the President. My sig says so. Actually, it says that people need to refresh their memories that Clinton and fictional Bartlett (Sheen) were tough talkers but often compromised, and more than this President.
But anyway, where the devil is the primary challenger?
I'm not just talking about primary challenge to the president, mind you.
As we get to the end of summer, no one is putting up web ads challenging current Senators or House members. This is unusual.
It's vital to moving the party left. Primary challenges in legislative races is how the GOP has been slowly moved rightward. Not even by the victories and losses, but by the constant drumbeat of messaging.
Now, again, admittedly, I believe that Obama is more liberal than Clinton. Fine, flame away. He is. The very fact that Dodd-Frank, for all its weaknesses, is an attempt to patch up what Clinton and the GOP ripped out of the system in the 1990s, means we're moving left. DADT undone ... DOMA moving towards being undone ... Bin Laden shot in the head (okay, that's not left or right, just what we had to do that was long overdue) ... cuts to Pentagon budget ... finally getting some kind of framework for health care on the national level ... actually investing in roads, bridges, green energy ...
So, let's move further left. Let's get more Ds in the R seats, for sure. But, where the blazes are the primary challenges to right-leaning Ds?
Is it that no one wants the job? If I were unemployed, I'd run. Well, I wouldn't, because I'm not going to primary Barney Frank, and there's lots of good people running against Scott Brown.
Is it that no one wants to challenge the incumbents? This site certainly would indicate otherwise.
Is it lack of money? Wouldn't this site and others like it provide tons of cash?
Is it that we can't move further left? Phoney baloney. And the polls show people would support leaders who want to go left and stop the rightward march.
Will any of you out there support a primary challenge to your Senators and Representatives? Will you be the one to run?
And even as a supporter of the President, I ask you all if someone out there will please primary him? I think it would be good for the base to see, it would get the organization jump-started, and it does not always mean defeat for the incumbent.
It would make it MORE likely in this case that he would win, as many of the challenger's supporters would feel that they had made their case (they would), and it would get memes out there that would be important for 2016.
One request, stop saying Bernie Sanders. He's not a Democrat, as much as I love him. He's not going to run in a Democratic primary. You look silly when you say that.
And I really would like to know if there are primary challengers for Congress, or really good people running on the D side already.
I've got two for you all, to start.
Elizabeth Warren still needs to be convinced to run against Scott Brown. I love a lot of the cast of characters already in the race, but I'm a sucker for liberals who also happen to be highly educated.
Barney Frank is an incumbent who will need a lot of cash (and time, if you're in the area). The GOP nearly unseated him last time, if you can believe it.
Okay, three. Stephen Lynch needs a primary challenger. Not like the President needs one. We need to dump Lynch. Mac D'Alessandro doesn't look like he's going to challenge him again.