Reply #118: And the reality is the same state with Franken also has Bachman. Your point is moot. So once

[RBInMaine]

again, Maine is on balance a pretty damn blue state. Snowe has been in Congress since the early 70's. She took over for her husband who died in office. Her new husband was the Gov. of Maine and also was in Congress. She's a legacy, personally popular, and relatively moderate compared to most R's in today's Senate. Almost the same with Collins. She is from a popular family in northern Maine, served on Bill Cohen's staff for many years, and has a relatively moderate voting record (compared, again, to most R's in the Senate) much like Snowe's. This is how they are able to get re-elected, and the same can be said of MANY members of congress. Nonetheless, I do not vote for them and have worked to defeat them.

As a local Dem party officer and activist who has burned boatloads of shoe leather working to elect Dems and defeat RePUKES, I sure as hell don't need a single narrow minded lecture from you. I don't sit in the backseat. I am out there in strategy sessions, organizing, and canvassing. I in fact have a strategy meeting and a canvass today. How many people who attack Obama as "just like Bush" otherwise spend most of their time in the backseat bitching amd doing little else? Probably most. The "base" are those who are dedicated to the party and get off their asses to work like hell to elect Democrats and are damn sick and tired of the constant bitchers. The "base" is not the Nader-voter type crowd or the fair weather purists who bitch incessantly mostly from the backseat. THAT is the group, along with some of the out-of-reality talking heads who complain more about Obama and Dems than Bush, who Gibbs was referring to, NOT the overwhelming majority of Dems and mainstream progressives who support this President, see all the good he has done, and want him to succeed. Occasional criticism or disagreement is one thing. Constant complaining and going so far as to compare Obama to Bush is quite another, and THAT is what Gibbs was talking about. His point was clear despite how much you in your defensive mindset would like it to be otherwise. So if you are someone who constantly bashes Obama and thinks he's like Bush, then I can understand why you would be mad at Gibbs. If not, then like me you are saying it is about damn time this shit was called out.