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BHL’s campaign Website neglects to mention that she is running as a Democrat. Perhaps, like Ken Simpler, she is running as an unaffiliated?
She was born, raised and lives in Delaware. She values hard work.
Again, this is introductory (and a Lt. Gov race), so I’m not expected a lot of policy, but c’mon. Why in the world should a Democrat vote for you in a democratic primary? I’m not seeing that question addressed at all.
Well, her website is a lot nicer than McGuinness’.
Here is the thing. It is a goddamn shame that someone as hard working and politically talented as BHL doesn’t put her shoulder behind articulating the core values of the Democratic Party.
BHL is all about BHL. She appears to have no real goals other than winning the next job.
She is John Carney in a pantsuit, but could be so much more.
I learned three things from this website:
1. she wants our money.
2. she wants our help.
3. she is willing to “fight together for the issues that matter most to us” — whatever they happen to be.
Seriously, though, why should she mention that she is a Democrat or what issues concern her. Several recent posts on this site have made it quite clear that neither the pundits at DL nor our own Democratic leaders have a grasp of what it really means to be a Democrat these days.
…and that is exactly the point. No fucking wonder we keep losing to a bunch of nuts who gather around a fucked-up political philosophy that is as wholly fucked-up and wrong up as it it easy to recite and remember.
If someone like BHL can’t muster the guts to tell voters why voting for a Democrat matters, who the fuck will?
? What post here on DL reveals that we don’t know what it means to be a Democrat? What, because not all of us are feeling the Bern?
No because you accept equivocating double-speak because voting Republican is “bad”. Sanders v Clinton has nothing to do with it other than illustrate the problem on a national scale.
Just the other day you wrote, regarding HRC’s (non)position on marijuana legalization, she neither supports it nor doesn’t support it. Wow, how brave.
If you don’t demand the candidates you support take a fucking stand on something you wind up with candidate making statements like mediawatch summarized above.
Just be not-Republican and think happy thoughts and make decision once the majority of supporters decide for you. These aren’t the characteristics of a dynamic leader.
The fact that you are so confused by this is ridiculous. I think you’re just being coy because I know you aren’t stupid. The problem isn’t that “we” don’t know what liberal causes are. The problem is that Democratic candidates does fucking run on them.
Oy vey.
Can’t see myself voting for anyone in the Democratic Primary ashamed to at least label themselves a Democrat
Voting Republican IS bad. The choice Democrats are losing is between voting for Democrats or not voting at all.
The low turnout elections demonstrate that keeping Republicans out of office is NOT a sufficient reason to bring most people to the polls.
I’m certainly not implying that it isn’t, G-man. I’m saying it shouldn’t be cover for a “Democratic” candidate to just turn up and be a cowardly, empty alternative. In the choice between say a fascist racist homophobe and a mealy-mouthed coward, many will abstain… as you correctly contend.
Geezer is right and EVEN the message that the Republicans will ” APPOINT JUDGES to the Supreme Court!!! OMG!! OMG!!!” is not enough.
There must be an affirmative Democratic message and when there isn’t Republicans win. It is astonishing to me that so many elected Democrats and party functionaries don’t get that. It is almost as if they don’t want to get it.
“It is almost as if they don’t want to get it.” — Jason 330
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Sinclair Lewis
I believe that was actually Upton Sinclair, author of Oil! and The Jungle, etc.
Oops. Of course you are right. I always get those two names confused.
He said it after his failed run for governor of, I believe, California.
Confession time (and probably worth a post of its own): I’m not feeling the Bern, and I don’t understand exactly why. I agree with Bernie Sanders’ positions. He makes sense to me, but given the political landscape I just can’t go there. I’m just not connecting with him. To me there are gaps in his platform – gaps that jump out at me. It’s not what he says, it’s what he doesn’t say. I guess what I’m saying is that I feel he isn’t speaking to me.
Which is probably a case of different priorities combined with the fact that I just don’t see President Sanders being able to enact his platform. He kinda reminds me of Trump. Both of them would be skewered by congress. Their winning would accomplish the impossible – bi-partisanship in congress.
Liberals shouldn’t feel the need to apologize (to scolds like my comrade Dorian) for not feeling the Bern. We are humans in addition to being liberals and sometimes the gut makes its case.
I don’t think anybody should apologize. I never asked for one either. My issue is more abstract than this recent Bern feeling thing.
People complain about Democrats not taking a stand. Equivocating. Triangulating. Evolving only once the coast is clear.
Also wondering in writing why voter turn-out is paltry. But at the same time making the case in no uncertain terms that the candidate relevance is more based on keeping the Republican out of power then anything else.
It’s almost like some of you don’t read your own shit. Or perhaps you just don’t take the time to reflect on what your arguing outside the day-to-day political context.
The problem is that the money is coming from one place (corporations) while the votes are coming from another (progressives). It’s the same reason the GOP is fracturing.
BH-L won’t put the donkey on her signs? She’s the perfect running-mate for Carney. The affiliations they value most are the ones who can put campaign scratch in their coffers.
I join with those who won’t vote for a D when they won’t put the donkey on their signs. It is, after all, the least they can do. If they’re truly Democrats.
If you can’t bother to assert that you are a Democrat IN A DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RACE, I have zero fucks to give.
And you can’t tell me Kathy McGuiness is a Democrat. She is as fair weather as they come.
Well, so, for that matter, is John Carney. And Carper. And Markell. You get the picture.
I know Jason covets his curmudgeonliness, but I haven’t see the scathing spittle-flecked post on Bryan Townsend’s lack of a donkey.
I’m sure it’s queued up.