Plouffe calls concerned Democrats "bed-wetters"???

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Yes, it's from 2008

In 2008, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe famously told his staff to ignore the pundits and cable channels, believing that the kind of bluster and fluff that animates them is not the same thing voters were seeking.

He also spoke often of having to calm the "bedwetters"—his term for supporters and others who freaked out whenever disconcerting, but ultimately inconsequential, developments arose.

Right after the first debate of 2012 had ended, Plouffe, now a senior adviser, offered a variation on that, saying the Obama campaign doesn't "believe in decisive moments."

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/10/6537778/obama-lost-every-pundit-agrees-so-now-what

The FT article doesn't say he's said it this year, just a generic:

Just as Mr Romney was forced to quell panic in Republican ranks before the debate, now it is Mr Obama’s turn.

David Plouffe, a senior presidential adviser, blames such periodic outbreaks of panic on the “bed-wetters” in the Democratic party.

But DUers couldn't get all outraged with a DU thread titled "Plouffe doesn't believe in decisive moments", so the 4 year old quote gets the play.