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Whose "Idiots" Are Shrewder, Part 2: Preventable Losses?

By Big Tent Democrat

Kevin Drum writes:

O'Donnell is only one candidate, and every professional politician knows that once you get a freight train barrelling forward you can't control every last twist in the tracks. And it's quite possible that the result of the Tea Party freight train this year will be lots of ultra-conservative victories and one or two preventable losses. Is that a reasonable price to pay? I don't know, but I do know that there are plenty of liberals who'd be willing to make that trade in the opposite direction.

(Emphasis supplied.) What liberals is Drum talking about? What races is Drum talking about? I can't think of a race (think Lieberman/Lamont, Halter/Lincoln, Tester/Morrison, Webb/Miller) where "liberals" backed O'Donnell-like candidates. Indeed, the opposite is true. The Netroots backed the better candidates for the GE (Tester and Webb) and saved the party Establishment from itself. The Tea Party has never done that. O'Donnell clearly is the less electable candidate in Delaware. No idea what Drum is talking about there. Frankly, supporting O'Donnell was no brainer stupid. It sets the Tea Party back, as I argued before.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).