A nice guy, I'm sure.
The new GOP lawmakers will also be running for reelection as a potentially divisive Republican presidential primary unfolds, likely highlighting some of the party’s loudest and most conservative voices — a situation that already has caught the attention of Democratic strategists.
“Republicans in the 26 districts that President Obama won should be especially worried that when the Republican presidential primary races to the right, their constituents will be looking [to Democrats] for a reasonable alternative,” said Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, the incoming Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman.
Is there any wonder why the Democrats were only able to hold on to the House for four years?
What Lujan is saying is that Democrats have nothing to offer except "not Republican."
I know Lujan isn't alone in this kind of thinking. 'Just wait until 2016 when Republicans go completely crazy!' they say. Seriously. That's Lujan's pithy strategy for winning back the House.
The Republican Party took power in the House in 2010. Since that time they have pushed the treasury to the edge of default, shut down the government, wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on lawsuits they didn't win, had a few of their members indicted, and have accomplished absolutely nothing in the way of policy, even the ones they run on. And despite all this, their majority expanded. Why in God's name does Lujan think anything said in a presidential campaign will top all that and still win them the House. Hell, in 2012 they had a Democratic President who won re-election against a field of absolute batshit crazy candidates saying crazy shit about rape and 47% and they still didn't win. Does Lujan expect the 2016 GOP to come advocating mandatory rickets for everyone? "I am against mandatory rickets!" says the inspiring Democratic candidate.
Congressman Lujan, I hope, will have a face to face meeting with someone who is not a Washington Democratic Strategist, because it is clear to me they don't know shit. The record speaks for itself. Or else, Democrats are just going to have to wait until the next Republican president has screwed up a war and a hurricane so completely in his sixth year they can then say "we're not that guy!"