Learn, Democrats, Learn, GD It!

[housewolf]

From AmericaBlog re: the Durbin fracas

Okay, have we learned a lesson????

Lynn Sweet writes a column in today's The Hill that analyzes the role Mayor Daley's criticism had in the whole Durbin affair:

The mayor did not understand that his comments gave the right-wing Internet websites, radio and cable shows the opening they were looking for and undermined Durbin. It also did not help Durbin that the criticism came from one of the nation’s leading Democrats who happened to be the mayor of the largest city in Durbin’s state.

That any Democratic politician or pundit in 2005 does not understand how the right wing media machine operates is beyond me, but it happens over and over.

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Wrong. Until you figure out how to win at politics -- and how NOT to play in to the hands of the right wingers -- you're not doing any good policy.

So learn from the Daley experience...and don't do the right wing's work for them.

more...
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/06/okay-have-we-learned-lesson.html

[LittleClarkie]

1. Indeed, he was the straw the broke Durbin's back

not the Repubs. Durbin could have handled the Repubs. He is no coward. But when the leading Dem in your own state come gunning for you, it's a problem.

Daley apparently didn't see the big picture. Shmuck.

[Larkspur]

2. Daley is undergoing his own scandal right now and probably needed cheap PR

points. It's easy to attack your own.