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Hmmm, Where Have We Heard this Before?

Timothy Egan, in a NY Times column online:

Of course, Martha Coakley, the Democrat who lost in a state where only 13 percent of voters identified as Republicans, ran a campaign that should be a mandatory lesson for all her supporters in Cambridge.

Among other great sins, she belittled the retail politics of her opponent, who stood in the cold of a Bruins hockey game at Fenway Park, thus disparaging three great New England institutions a single two-second sound bite. It follows, then, that she didn’t know that Curt Schilling, the Boston pitcher who bled through his sox, was a Red Sox fan. Stealing a page from Mike Dukakis when he decided to spend August mowing his lawn while the 1988 presidential contest slipped away from him, her campaign essentially went dark with a double-digit lead. And she did what no Kennedy had ever done — she took the voter for granted.

…Democrats are good at bleeding, kvetching and woe-is-me-ing.

Democrats taking voters for granted.

Democrats belittling opponents in ways that don’t speak out to those beyond their own base, but that invariably impugn the very voters that they need to reach. (We won’t add “Democrats mocking these suggestions as irrelevant, or worse, because, well “we told the truth,” “If we got the message, then doesn’t that prove it was effective?” See here, for a classic example.)

Democrats then spending a whole lot of time, complaining about the very things that shouldn’t have happened, because it was all “so obvious.”

Yeah, we’ve heard this before.

It also ties in with a post here yesterday that asked “Just how bad are Democrats at Controlling the Debate,” and which made the same point which Egan ascribes to Jon Stewart, whom he calls the most astute political commentator in America. (Maybe he’s just the best known.)

This huge majority, as America’s most astute political observer, Jon Stewart, pointed out, is far more than George W. Bush ever had, and he used it to do whatever he wanted to with the country.

You don’t say. Our point, exactly. And we ask, why?

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