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“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Back to regular posting on Thursday. And while that could be about Ned Lamont, it’s more personal this time with Jeff Smith winning with big margins in the 4th District State Senate Race in St. Louis last night. Jeff was an original Dean Dozen candidate in 2004. We took nearly 72% of the vote in my old ward.
?This shows what blind loyalty to George Bush and being his love child means,? said Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, the leader of the Democratic House Congressional campaign. ?This is not about the war. It?s blind loyalty to Bush.?
Standing against a war that is hugely unpopular and horribly mismanaged to the point that one has to wonder if anything can be salvaged from it is hardly radical. Republicans can delude themselves that this is some sort of radical outcome, but with recent polling it seems that 60% of the population, not just Democrats agree with Ned Lamont. They can then try and tell everyone how Chafee probably losing to Laffey is really quite different….
Durbin and Obama are backing Lamont.
I’ve been on the losing end of many primaries and you know what you do, barring the person being a criminal or sorts, you back the winner. However, insurgent candidates cannot just be people professing the right things, they have to put together a decent operation and have access to money. Lamont had that as did Jeff.