With Democrats like this....
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) called for compromise and cooperation between Democrats and Republicans during remarks in Virginia on Monday, and equated the Tea Party movement on the right with progressive MoveOn.org activists.
"There's a super left on my party -- the MoveOn crowd in my party -- and the Tea Party crowd on the other party," he said after a meeting with tourism officials in Staunton, Va. "You know, they don't compromise. So I, for one, am -- there are too many times I bit my lip in the first year, or bit my tongue. I'm done."
And you thought Jon Stewart was the king of the false equivalency, talking about Code Pink and 9/11 truthers as though there were more than five of them and they actually mattered, like they got people elected to higher office or something.
You'd have a little more hope for an actual elected Democrat who seemingly watched this past election, with the very real violence coming from the right wing. Death threats, shot out windows, head-stomping, assault, cut gas lines, white powder mailed to a congressman--all of this happened to his Democratic colleagues and their supporters during this election. MoveOn, meanwhile, was armed with signs at political rallies and phonebanks. Oh, and donations. Millions of them across the nation, to try to hold onto a Democratic majority.
Here's MoveOn Executive Director Justin Ruben's statement to HuffPo:
"Senator Warner's response is to falsely equate 5 million MoveOn members, including over 102,000 in Virginia -- people from all walks of life who worked tirelessly for Democrats in Virginia and all across the country -- with the racist and xenophobic far-right wing of the Republican Party. If Mark Warner's recipe for victory is to attack the core of supporters still willing to back Democrats, and to promise more deals with corporate Republicans, anyone who cares about progress should look elsewhere for leadership."
Good luck in 2014, Senator.
(See TomP's recommended diary for additional discussion.)