Want to know how scared POLITICO is of progressives and the coming progressive tide? Look no further than this laughable article they posted today, claiming the Dems are blowing a sure bet in the midterms.
What evidence do they cite? They cite two races — one, of course, is the Dan Lipinski race, where they conveniently forgot to mention that the opponent is an actual NeoNazi. How disingenuous can you get? The other is a jungle primary in California where Dems are risking getting shut out altogether. A total of two seats. Lipinski is obviously funneling barrels of cash to POLITICO for them to write this kind of tripe, because while POLITICO has always carried water for the establishment, they used to be a bit more professional than this.
The other essential ingredient of the Republican survival plan is largely out of the party’s hands: Democratic self-immolation. Naturally, it’s already underway.
Trump has re-engineered the laws of candidate supply and demand, leading to Democratic primaries that are teeming with viable prospects. Yet that’s also raising the odds of bruising, cash-draining contests before the general election, which could force some candidates to adopt positions that will haunt them in a general election.
In one of those primaries, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has thrown an incumbent, Chicago-based Rep. Dan Lipinski, under the bus, by declining to provide its endorsement to him against a top challenger, Marie Newman. Across the border in Wisconsin, the longshot bid to knock off House Speaker Paul Ryan has been sidetracked by a primary between progressive favorite Randy “Ironstache” Bryce and another progressive, Cathy Myers, who raised $183,000 in the latest fundraising quarter.
Give it up, losers. Stop embarrassing yourselves.