My reponse to the Dem leadership for thier betrayal of Hackett

[Greeby]

http://www.votemark.org/
http://www.nedlamont.com/
http://www.tasinifornewyork.org/
http://www.greenfieldforsenate.org/
http://www.carlsheeler.com/

Take a hint, dumbasses

[wakeme2008]

1. Good post thanks

:)

[msongs]

2. hackett chose to quit. he chose to quit. he coulda stayed but he

chose to quit. now he is blaming OTHERS for his choice to quit when he could choose to stay in the race.so instead of blaming others for his own choice, he could accept responsibility for his own choice to quit. or he could stay in the race and fight on.

whether he was a better man or candidate than anyone else I do not know,not being from his area.

Msongs
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[LeftNYC]

3. Kos has an interesting take on Hackett's withdrawal...

might be worth reading before we all start jumping off the cliff...

http://www.dailykos.com/

OH-Sen: Hackett out. Of politics.

Calling his donors? Seems like a bullshit thing to do. But the party wasn't afraid of Hackett, they were afraid of an untested candidate in a high-profile Senate race. He'd have all the support in the world had he decided to run for OH-02. And he'd be able to build on that support for a Senate race in 2010.
But alas, it was not to be. Too bad.
Update: To make something clear, Hackett is complaining about betrayal. Yet Rahm was trying to get him to become one of his candidates. In other words, Rahm was recruiting him. That's not a bad thing. That's a flattering thing.
To be clear -- Hackett didn't stand a chance. He had a tenth of Brown's money, and that was before party people allegedly tried to stop Hackett's donors from giving. His field operation in the special election was literally put together and implemented by Dan Lucas. Who is Dan Lucas? Sherrod Brown's campaign manager. Hackett's netroots effort in the special election was put together by Tim Tagaris. And while Tim is now at the DNC, he helped put together Brown's netroots operation.

[Catrina]

4. Hackett should have been approached BEFORE he made his

decision. That would have been the right, and honest thing to do ~

Dailykos didn't mention the fact that Hackett said he would not run against the Democrats who were in the Congressional race. A man of his word!! What a refreshing change ~ and how disappointing that so-called 'progressives' have no respect for that.

It is not about Hackett or Brown to me, it is about dirty politics that many on the left have claimed to despise ~ and now, when it's in their favor, they seem to be supporting.

Why did they wait 'til now? Are they in such disarray that they didn't what their strategy was until some corporate entity warned them they would withdraw funds from the party if they let Hackett run? The whole thing stinks.

How many other popular candidates are they going to betray like this? Seems to me, they want to lose.

I can think of a number of 'Democrats' this party needs to get rid of, like Joe Lieberman, eg. Has Reid or Schumer asked him to drop out of the race to spare us a divisive primary?? That I could have supported ~ the DLC strikes again, it seems ~ and Schumer is my Senator. The DLC rules NYC politics ~ and supports all wars in the ME. That is the big donors and fundraisers. Hackett was saying things they didn't like, and since he was in Iraq, his words carried weight ~