Reply #10: And I get what you're saying, though I wouldn't call e.g. Webb "wishy washy" [View All]

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Some talking head (Bill O?) said after 2006 "Yeah, but Webb isn't exactly a moveon.org type of Democrat" which floored me because he was literally their star candidate that year. Even though he is much more conservative than your average moveon.org donor. I see somebody like Lieberman (or, on the other side, Jeffords or Specter) as wishy-washy, willing to just take whatever opportunistic position works for them at the moment. Webb, and even Nelson and Baucus, have positions and beliefs they hold to, even if a lot of them are not what we would like them to be.

I disagree that it was the wish-washyness that won, and I don't see how being wishy-washy should get credit for the win then, if it is to be held responsible for the loss now.

Because we didn't deliver results fast enough, and since we ran on "we will make government work again", we got booted when it still didn't work 4 years later. There may also be some level of nostalgia for the 90s, and since the economy started surging under a Democratic President and Republican Congress, that division might feel good to a lot of people.