So... what is the lesson to be learned from the MA election?

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What should the rest of the Democratic party learn from it?
What should the Republican party learn from it?
What should the White House learn from it?
What should the nation learn from it?

[branders seine]

1. Dems fucked up big time since Nov 2008.

2010 is gonna suck.

[kenny blankenship]

4. They've squandered the most important political opportunity in nearly 3 generations

[branders seine]

18. utterly

squandered.

[krabigirl]

2. People are stupid?

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[GMA]

3. Don't push a health care bill that no one likes down our throats.

n/t

[JVS]

21. Or if you're going to push one, make sure that some group can like it.

[stray cat]

5. The person who gets the most votes win?

[TwixVoy]

6. A 3rd party is coming

[NorthCarolina]

28. If it's a Liberal/Progressive Party then Color Me There. eom

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[UTUSN]

9. Baseball baseball baseball !1 n/t

[KittyWampus]

10. Not to be complacent and do next to no campaigning, opposition research or canvassing.

[joe_sixpack]

11. Never take....

anything for granted.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Never take anything for granted

I don't live in Massachusetts but what I'm hearing is Brown spent way more time on the campaign trail than Coakley did. You've got to go out and meet the people.

[Hippo_Tron]

15. I was about to say the same thing

Especially in an off year election when your party is in power always prepare for the absolute worst and take nothing for granted.

[Historic NY]

13. Well for one i'm not spending one more damn dollar on campaigns....

cause with we we have gained is all going down hill fast.

[Historic NY]

14. Well for one i'm not spending one more damn dollar on campaigns....

cause with we we have gained is all going down hill fast.

[gravity]

16. The Democrats need to fight hard in 2010

[SallyMander]

17. Know your goddamn Red Sox. nt.

[JVS]

19. Don't let Ben Nelson force the rest of the caucus to lick his butt on C-Span

Even Nelson wants to backpedal on the concessions made to him, and it made the party look both divided and opposed to the interests of the American public.

[Individualist]

20. Excise the DLC cancer from the party.

[Sebastian Doyle]

26. +100,000

<------- :grr:

[ShortnFiery]

37. Oh yeah!

Also BANISH the nasty New Democrats and Blue Dogs with the DLC ... may they figuratively BURN and TWIST in the 7th ring of HELL. :evilgrin:

[Rabon]

33. Very short sighted

This wasn't about Coakley and Brown.

[Guilded Lilly]

22. Shit happens.

Dems-Go with the intelligence and power you have and stay the course.

It's one friggin man, and not a very stellar one at that. A plum candidate for the Family.
So what? learn from the lessons of this past year and quit giving these morons more power than they think they have. DO IT YOURSELVES. You can.

Don't play into the hands of neener neener dancing fools who will preen and posture and claim they are the world's ultimate winners and bray all over the halls of Congress while the real American populace wishes you would cut the teeth grinding out and get down to the business of making better things happen without the damn bipartisanship input (or road blocks) of meglamaniac spooge.

You cannot play fair with the current Republican Party.
So don't play with them.

[Politicub]

23. We either hang together or we hang seperately

That was really brought home tonight.

As long as we're infighting, our eyes are off the prize.

And, there can be no resting on our laurels. We must do everything we can to seat Democrats, and Dem candidates must run airtight campaigns.

[anonymous171]

24. Politics is war. In war you have to fight. If you don't ,you get your head blown off

That's the lesson.

[Xenotime]

25. Lesson is simple..

They are a danger to themselves and others. They can not make a decision that would save them even when clearly point out to them in black and white. They seek out paths of destruction rather than roads to equality and prosperity.

Or, more to the point..Americans don't deserve the right to vote.

[anonymous171]

27. Republicans don't deserve the right to vote.

[Vegetarianist]

29. Run an outsider Dem.

Not someone that people on both sides already know and have written off as a far-left liberal. Like what would happen with Alan Grayson and Kucinich. There may have to be a large compromise on the candidate's views on gun ownership.

W.H. shouldn't wait on an invitation to go campaigning.

[TexasObserver]

30. The lesson is: Don't ever think the election is in the bag.

This was a lousy candidate, but our party picked her. She assumed she would win, she ran a lousy campaign, and she happened along at a time when the electorate is kind of sick of hearing the party equivocate over important issues, and kind of weary of the president's lack of leadership on issues such as health care. It was a confluence of these components.

If the president will lead, and the congress will deliver, we can still succeed in the fall elections.

[hyphenate]

31. Never take your enemy too lightly

Despite how comfortable you think your seat is. Coakley did this, and now the state is suffering.

[pstokely]

32. No seat is safe

[ShortnFiery]

34. Corporate Greed from Democrats will NOT score them votes in 2010 nor 2012.

The KEY is to serve The Average Wage Earning American NOT the bloated multi-national corporations.

[Fading Captain]

35. Why would anyone unrecommend honest questions?

WTF?

[RedCloud]

36. Mention your mandate the first time the Republicans throw a major roadblock.

[kdsimantel]

38. We start playing hard ball

1. Obama should get rid of Rahm Emanuel. He has been a disaster.
2. The Republicans can't keep winning if they can't come up with a platform.
but their racism has worked so far.
3. I think that 2010 will be hell for incumbants....especially for Democrats
who passed a shit ass Bankruptcy law in 2006.(I'd hate to be Barney Frank
in November. We have done nothing to get banks and Wall Street under
control.
4. It is Massachusetts who elected Romney for christ sakes I think they can be
schizophrenic
5. Coakley ran a horrible campaign.

Since I'm unemployed it frees up a ton of time to volunteer for progressives in my home state of Oregon. I'm depressed.

[Raine]

39. Don't say you're not worried about throwing progressives

under the bus and don't throw them under it in the first place.