Reply #42: Emanuel Is A Goldwater Republican With A Nasty Atitude

[MannyGoldstein]

I trust that Obama knows how to use him correctly. I assume that he's the kind of guy that if you say "go take that hill", he'll get it done. But you'd never, ever want him to pick *which* hill to take - that's better left to Democrats.

As to the 2006 election... Emanuel's handpicked semi-Republicans had a lower winning percentage in taking seats from the Rethugs than did the DNC in general. Emanuel underperformed Dean. The DLC strategy of only focusing on battleground states is a failed ideology, and an important reason why we lost both houses of Congress as soon as Clinton took over the party - we never regained Congress until Dean took the reigns.