"And Promises To Keep"

[Me.]

If the dems want to continue winning races, the way to victory is quite simple, keep your promises to the people who worked so hard to get you elected based on those promises. I think Coakley will scrape by but the closeness of the race should be a wake-up call.

[StreetKnowledge]

1. Indeed. The fact a Teabag Clown could do so well in MA should be a wakeup call in itself.

Remember telling all of us to sit down and shut up, Rahm? Bet it hurts like a bitch now, doesn't it? And if you lose in MA, it's gonna hurt a helluva lot more. You now need to work for US, Rahm, not your corporate buddies.

[Me.]

2. Where The Strategy Went Wrong

I read last week where a senior WH advisor said they has time to get the base back. They were thinking they would need us for November and that they had plenty of time never dreaming Mass. would come into play.

This is from Oct.

“Progressive bloggers were in an uproar Sunday night after a White House "adviser," speaking on condition of anonymity, urged them to "take off their pajamas" and get serious about politics. Cont…

“In an email to the Huffington Post on Monday, Harwood clarified that the quote was not meant to convey any displeasure on the part of the administration for the gay community's public advocacy.

"My comments quoting an Obama adviser about liberal bloggers/pajamas weren't about the LGBT community or the marchers," he wrote. "They referred more broadly to those grumbling on the left about an array of issues in addition to gay rights, including the war in Afghanistan and health care and Guantanamo -- and whether all that added up to trouble with Obama's liberal base..." cont…

“John Aravosis of the prominent AMERICABlog, wrote:

So the gay community, and its concerns about President Obama's inaction, and backtracking, on DADT and DOMA, are now, according to President Obama's White House, part of a larger "fringe" that acts like small children who play in their pajamas and need to grow up. (And a note to our readers: The White House just included all of you in that loony "left fringe.",,,cont…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/12/bloggers-furious-at-white_n_317424.html

[Mari333]

3. Rahm Emmanuel is the Karl Rove of the WH now

He is the worst possible person to be in that position. with a few others.

[tridim]

4. Gawd you're misguided. Rahm is not even remotely comparable to Rove

It's shocking that you'd even consider it.

I'm not a big fan of Rahm's personality, but I'd never even consider comparing him to Rove, who is probably the second most evil living person on Earth.

Shame on you. Really.

[Fire1]

5. Maybe or maybe not. Her loss may not have anything to do

with progressives. It may have more to do with independents leaning right. Nevertheless, the liberals will be the losers in more ways than one.

[Me.]

6. You're Quite Right

Regarding the indies and that's another question to be asked, why did they slip away? That said, activists/progressives are a mainstay for the dems for they are willing to do the heavy lifting when it comes to walking districts, calls etc.