Reply #191: The giant elephant is the one

[Jakes Progress]

that sits in on WH meetings and DLC planning sessions. It gives advice and they seem to take it.

The undeniable truth is that the more right wing the Democrats become, the less reason the country will find to vote Democratic.

Clueless is brushing off with crude disdain the millions of Democrats who worked to get Obama elected but now have concerns. You want to tell them to shut up. You want to tell them to mind their place. You and the faithful will do all the talking.

Many of us tried right after the election to point out that kissing republican ass wouldn't be a good strategy. Not only is it morally bankrupt, it is just stupid strategy if you wan to get re-elected. But we were told that if we didn't like what Obama was doing, we must be working for palin.

Many of us tried to say that we had only a short time to enact the progressive agenda that the country wanted, the change they were promised. We tried to say that whiling away the first two years playing tri-dimensional bipartisan chess would only bite us in the butt at the mid-terms. We were told to shut up, that Obama had only been in office for 3 months, then 6 months, then a year, then a year and a half.

Like a enablers in a dysfunctional family, the faithful forgave Obama every error and twisted those things into virtues. You don't help the man with your fawning and adoration. You don't help get him more votes with your nasty, snotty posts that berate the very people you so desperately need to vote for him. You don't help him when you spend all your energy carving out the special little place in his heart for yourself by excluding anyone else. You don't help him succeed when you prate the old standard, beltway common knowledge that Democrats must act conservative or the country won't like them. That is the kind of horse shit that costs Democrats elections. People wanted something different, not just a nicer guy. They thought things would be different. Telling people who are out of work that things are just fine only convinces them that you lie. Telling people that the war is over when our money and the blood continue to flow is just not cutting it. Telling people that you are going to fix schools by putting ronald reagan's education plan into effect is not change. Letting the liars who caused the downfall of our economy and the destruction of our good will around the world walk away because you have no stomach for enforcing the laws you pledged to uphold is not a change.

You can keep haranguing people to love the man, but you won't be helping him. The progressives have been trying to help him from the first. They actually believed him when he said to hold him to his word and to tell him when he was wrong. He never gave a speech saying that you should love him unconditionally and turn a blind eye to his faults. We listened to his speeches and took him at his word. You did not. And the Democrats will continue to suffer until they stand up and say how shitty things are and who is responsible and the tell us how things will get better, not just not as bad, under their majority.

Your post is divisive and insulting. It is clueless and does nothing to help Democrats retain majorities. I don't know if you are capable of understanding your damage or if you just don't care so long as you get to campaign for your own special, special status as Obama's special, special someone.