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In reply to the discussion: To all the New Jersey Democratic Mayors who supported Christie over Buono . . . [View all]markpkessinger
(8,409 posts). . . But if you ever bothered to look a little deeper, I think you would find for many of the people you think want to "blame Democrats first," it's about refusing to give Democrats a pass on actions or policies for which we would never dream of giving a pass to Republicans. It's about the belief that fighting for is important enough to risk losing elections over sometimes. It is about refusing to accept that having a 'D' after one's name necessarily means that person actually stands for the policies, principles and values that have traditionally animated the Democratic Party.
It has never been about attacking Democrats for the sake of attacking Democrats. It IS about calling out those Democrats who continue to aid and abet the Republican agenda that pulls this country further and further to the right. If the Democratic mayors who supported Christie supported him because they support his policies, then the question arises as to whether they are in the correct party. If they did so out of fear of some sort of reprisal by Christie, then they made themselves into enablers of his bullying. (The suggestion that they were trying to protect their constituents is untenable, because, as Rachel Maddow pointed out the other night, it has never, in the past, been Christie's pattern to attack a political foe's constituents; rather, his usual pattern is to go directly after the foe himself/herself. Thus, the only people these mayors were tying to 'protect' from Christie was themselves.)