Jeb Lund Wrote Some Insightful Words about the 2014 Mid-Terms — regarding the Democratic Party’s Puke-Prompting Wimps

© 2014 Peter Free

 

06 November 2014

 

 

Citation

 

Jeb Lund, Welcome to the Great Liberal Hangover of 2014. Will anything make it go away?, The Guardian (05 November 2014)

  

The pain of diluted toadyism

 

Jeb Lund wrote this about the 2014 mid-term election results:

 

 

On Tuesday night, a lot of Republican-ish candidates got crushed by the official Republican candidates, confirming yet again that a gutless, wincing version of one kind of politics always loses to the robust one.

 

In Kentucky, you had Alison Lundergan Grimes, who refused to admit that she voted for the leader of her own party when it was farcical even to suggest she might not have. Which was a loser move on two levels.

 

One, God knows how you ask an electorate to place its trust in you when you lie that badly and meaninglessly.

 

Two, how do you ask voters to adopt your principles when you hold them at arm’s length from your body with a clothespin on your nose?

 

Rachel Maddow’s suggested that maybe Democrats refusing to campaign on Obamacare deserved to lose, and if anything she was being gentle.

 

If you have one (1) major legislative achievement for the last five years, and your only response is to run screaming from it, then why would anyone want you to get things done?

 

© 2014 Jeb Lund, Welcome to the Great Liberal Hangover of 2014. Will anything make it go away?, The Guardian (05 November 2014) (reformatted extracts)

 

The rest of his essay is worth a quick read.

 

 

The moral? — Most people do not want leaders, who flaunt principles comprised of warm diarrhea

 

2014’s Democratic candidates were metaphorically chopped into dog porridge, eaten and pooped out — to lie subtly stinking under a drizzly rain.

 

In the Party’s partial defense, it is difficult to be a Plutocrat’s behind-licker, while simultaneously professing not to be. Barack Obama pulled that off twice, but six years in his appeal is fading.

 

Republicans, in contrast, are only rarely burdened by having to believably pretend to feel for America’s non-elite.  They comprise the apparently attractive Super Pungent version of Robber Baron suck-up.