Let’s Take A Look Back At The Best Of Alan Grayson Over The Years

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Progressive hero or counterproductive P.I.T.A.? Is he a victim of a rightward shift of the Democratic Party, or are his wounds self-inflicted?

Or, most likely, all of the above.
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Let’s Take A Look Back At The Best Of Alan Grayson Over The Years

The man behind “die quickly” had plenty more barbs.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alan-grayson-florida-primary_us_57c5dc06e4b0e60d31dbd092

Ryan Grim | 08/30/2016 05:21 pm ET | Updated Aug 30, 2016

WASHINGTON ― For the second time since Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) entered national politics, he’s on his way out.

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But in 2012, after a redistricting gave him a favorably Democratic district, he surged back to office, pulling off the greatest election-to-election turnaround in House history. He handily won reelection in 2014, before jumping into this year’s Florida Senate race to replace the retiring Marco Rubio. (Having lost to Donald Trump in the Republican primary, Rubio reconsidered retirement and is making a bid for reelection.) Grayson was unsuccessful ― he lost the Democratic primary to one-time Republican Patrick Murphy.

Grayson hoped to carry the primary by relying on a progressive base of support, but was overwhelmed by establishment opposition to his campaign. In an unusually public display, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) not only threw his support behind Murph, the scion of a construction fortune, but also skewered Grayson. “I want you to lose,” he told Grayson in a private meeting.

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“There’s a purge going on all across the country in which the party machinery is being used to defeat progressive candidates,” he said, citing establishment support for centrist or conservative Senate candidates in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Maryland. In Pennsylvania, the party fended off populist Mayor John Fetterman and progressive Joe Sestak in favor of Katie McGinty. In Maryland, leadership favorite Chris Van Hollen got establishment support against a progressive African-American woman, Donna Edwards. And then of course, there’s Bernie.

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1. When he dumped his wife of decades, the woman who raised his kids, to chase after a rich Big Pharma

"enterpreneur" (that's DOCTOR to you, peons!) with political ambitions of her own (mercifully thwarted) he showed himself to be the cheeseball that he really is.

He is all mouth, no results.

He is also not a nice person. Concerned more with his own aggrandizement than the people he purports to champion. He used his political office as a tool and sold his hedge fund saying that his insider status made him a better decision maker as to investments. I mean, really?

When Harry Reid said to him "I want you to LOSE" I stood up and cheered. He is--and always has been--a LOSER. Talk, talk, talk, but no walk, walk, walk.