And I've quoted at length because I think it's really important to understand what's happening here.
http://www.openleft.com/diary/9625/Nov 02, 2008
Doug Schoen is the DLC-affiliated pollster for Republicans like Mike Bloomberg - the guy who bashes progressive organizations from the right, the genius strategist who makes his name on perpetually telling Democrats to capitulate to Republicans on major issues. . . .
He says a Democratic victory on Tuesday will mean no mandate for Democratic policies, even while admitting an Obama election would be "a wholsale rejection" of conservatism. That's like saying the 1980 election was a rejection of liberalism, but not an embrace of conservatism - an assertion that no pollster would ever make without expecting to be laughed at. In our (unfortunately) binary politics, referendum elections like this year's by definition couple rejection of one party and ideology with the embrace of another party and ideology.
Schoen knows all this - and so his column is yet another preemptive effort to claim that a Democratic victory on Tuesday obviously - self-evidently! - means America is more conservative than ever.
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/08/15/fox_news_democratic_wanker_of_the_week_doug_schoen.phpIs Doug Schoen really a Democrat? Even Sean Hannity wondered during the “Sleep-In Sunday Panel” segment on last night's (8/14/09) Hannity show. Schoen, purportedly the lone Democrat among three conservatives, barely had a good word to say for what was supposed to be his own side and repeatedly joined in the partisan attacks coming from the others. . . .
But Schoen wasn’t through attacking Democrats. He went on to agree with Hannity’s distorted account that Democrats have been calling town house protesters "Nazis" and "mobsters." “It is tragic,” Schoen said, instead of correcting the record about what Democrats have actually said and the way they have been demonized on Fox. He continued, “It’s un-American to engage in that kind of division and hate. ‘Cause we all are Americans and we all want to work together to solve problems.”
http://www.newshounds.us/2010/01/02/doug_schoen_the_fox_news_democratic_wanker_of_the_decade.phpI previously wrote about what a Democratic wanker Doug Schoen is. But for his jaw-dropping appearance on Hannity on 12/18/09, in which he enthusiastically joined every single Republican talking point and failed to rebut the smears leveled at what was supposed to be his own side, Schoen has taken the cake for Democratic Wankers. . . .
Schoen started by giving props to Andrew Breitbart for his anti-ACORN videos. ... Schoen exclaimed with gusto that the undercover videos, made by conservative activists with their own issues regarding truth, are “changing the face of politics… because what people are learning is that they can’t get away with the kind of outrageous behavior that has been part of politics as usual.” . . .
Next, after Breitbart went on a tear against the so-called liberal media, Schoen took a gratuitous slap at the Obama administration for criticizing Fox News as an arm of the GOP. “Given the extraordinary audience that you (Hannity) command, that Fox News commands, it’s not acceptable or rational to sort of say ‘This isn’t journalism or news,’ as the White House has said. It’s just bad judgment.”
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/07/doug_schoen_republicanOct 7, 2010
Famed "Democratic" pollster Doug Schoen can commonly be found on Fox News explaining that Democrats are bad and wrong. Sometimes he writes op-eds with fellow "Democrat" Pat Caddell about how awful and disappointing Barack Obama is because of his constant race-baiting and class warfare. (And sometimes he writes, for Fox, that the Democratic party needs a "bold, centrist agenda that focuses on fiscal discipline ." Also Barack Obama's next chief of staff should have "tires fo the business community.")
Obviously, as a longtime, prominent Democrat, Doug Schoen is doing everything he can to help out in the upcoming midterm elections. For example: He's a special guest at a fundraiser for a congressional candidate from New York this Sunday. The candidate is Republican John Gomez. As Media Matters reports, Gomez may not be a Democrat, but he's a part of Schoen's real family: Fox News.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111202846.htmlOpinion | One and done: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012
By Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell
Sunday, November 14, 2010
If the president goes down the reelection road, we are guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it. But by explicitly saying he will be a one-term president, Obama can deliver on his central campaign promise of 2008, draining the poison from our culture of polarization and ending the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose.
We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed. The midterm elections were effectively a referendum on the Obama presidency. And even if it was not an endorsement of a Republican vision for America, the drubbing the Democrats took was certainly a vote of no confidence in Obama and his party. The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents. . . .
Obama can restore the promise of the election by forging a government of national unity, welcoming business leaders, Republicans and independents into the fold.