Dear Moderates: The Left Isn’t Why McAuliffe
Lost Virginia
Daily Beast,
by
Max Burns
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
11/3/2021 3:45:01 PM
Nothing motivates conservatives Democrats like an excuse for inaction, and Virginia’s sucker punch of a gubernatorial election Tuesday night offered a golden opportunity for them to pump the legislative brakes. Let’s own the bad news: after an increasingly vitriolic campaign centered around the bogeyman of “Critical Race Theory,” Republican Glenn Youngkin beat Democrat and former Governor Terry McAuliffe to end what has been a successful and effective streak of Democratic victories in the Old Dominion dating back nearly a decade. In the race to place blame, the centrists zeroed in on their left flank. To a progressive, it feels like
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 11/3/2021 3:52:25 PM (No. 966208)
Don't know what data he's reading but most polls show a majority of American voters don't want Biden build back broke spending boondoggle. Where is this super major he sees? Oh yeah, eighty one million......
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 11/3/2021 3:57:45 PM (No. 966216)
The Democrats should listen to Max. Double down on their agenda and pedal to the floor! Max speaks of centrist conservative Democrats, they're a rare donkey. I'm not sure they aren't extinct.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 11/3/2021 4:01:46 PM (No. 966220)
FTA - "Supermajorities of Americans are already shouting their preferences: They want as much of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda as possible — and a Democratic Party willing to stand behind his ambitious and necessary promises."
I love it. The Marxists haven't' learned anything from this loss. Great news for the Normals.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Digiconver 11/3/2021 4:02:47 PM (No. 966221)
Hope a lot of Dems believe this. Let 'em keep digging themselves nto a hole.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
msjena 11/3/2021 4:14:44 PM (No. 966227)
I hope the Democrats keep thinking like that. There is a much simpler explanation. The Democrats have swung too far left for most voters. Bill Clinton understood this when he lost Congress in 1994. He moved to closer to the center--passing welfare reform and abandoning health care reform. The Democrats chose Biden because they thought Sanders was too liberal. And then Biden decided to govern like Sanders would have. What did he/they expect? If he were smart, which he is not, he would pass infrastructure and give up on Build Back Bernie. He would clean up the border and restart the Keystone pipeline. Fortunately for the Republicans, the Democrats are set to double down on their losing strategy. Let's go Brandon!
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Radical Dems can whistle past graveyards as well as Republicans can...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kennedylaw 11/3/2021 4:32:49 PM (No. 966238)
What color is the sky in this idiot's world?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Laotzu 11/3/2021 4:32:50 PM (No. 966239)
"The worst thing that could possibly happen, then, is for the party’s conservatives to read McAuliffe’s loss as a sign that Americans are turned off by the Democratic agenda."
That conclusion is reached after an extensive word salad of Democrat disregard for fact and reason. These people really have devolved away from the capacity for rational thinking.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chance_232 11/3/2021 4:34:43 PM (No. 966240)
WOW!!! I'll have what he's having! Because he's either seriously under the influence of some good drugs......or he's a complete mental case.
Max should read the exit polls.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Birddog 11/3/2021 4:34:54 PM (No. 966241)
I have not seen the breakout/parameters of WHO was included in the Poll mentioned...it only sez "1228 surveyed by Web, then weighted to create demographic, race, regional, age, gender balances."
The ONLY question that had more than 15% support was "Tax the Rich!"...none of the specific policy proposals where that Tax money would be spent had more than 7%, most around 5%.
NO other poll shows an over 50% support for any policy aspect of BBB, instead most have CLEAR majorities against them...by as much as 3or4 to 1.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/3/2021 4:50:46 PM (No. 966250)
There is NO SUCH THING as a Moderate Democrap...there may be a handful that are 98% Marxist vs. the rest at 120% Marxist...I'm using Blobal Blarming Math here...
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Yes, Virginia there are parents who still care about their children!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TLCary 11/3/2021 5:09:36 PM (No. 966268)
All of the top comments on MSN's website read just like ours. Not one of the top rated agree with it. There is a change in the air.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
downnout 11/3/2021 5:34:42 PM (No. 966289)
Wow, where can I get whatever it is this loon is smoking? It must be particularly strong.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Sully 11/3/2021 6:47:46 PM (No. 966353)
"
I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.
"
And that is precisely what the deep left believes. Therefore, yes, The Left is precisely why McAuliffe lost.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
RockiesFan 11/3/2021 7:58:21 PM (No. 966420)
There are no moderate Democrats. There are leftists and radical leftists, a few who represent moderate or purple districts.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MissMann 11/3/2021 10:19:42 PM (No. 966552)
Yep, you are SO right, Max! The left should keep on the same path: keep telling parents they should have no say in their child's education, keep telling free Americans what they have to put in their bodies in order to participate in society, keep covering for outrageous fraud (Hunter, et al), just keep on keeping on. I'm sure elections will start going your way soon. /s
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/4/2021 12:32:04 AM (No. 966614)
The article reads like a Communist after-action report.
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