Sooner or later, The Dems are going to own it. They are just about out of money with which to buy votes.
Originally Posted by Jackie S
The liberal elements in the Democratic Party are quietly "cutting and running" from their figure head-canon fodder, who is out there sopping up campaign contributions from fund raisers from the "we-butter-both-sides-of-the-bread" crowds.
As Obaminable threatened to do last month, he will throw the older voters (the social security recipients) under the bus, because they will not vote for him again anyway, while laying it on the unions, whose "leaders" have threatened to abandon him due to his "enemic" responses to their demands. [Please note the difference between SS and SSI].
The administration advisor-gurus must still believe that the folks that show up at Tea Party rallies and meetings (and who voted for persons aligned with their views) are a marginal, terroristic, radical group with marginal influence in the political process.
During Nixon's period "they" were called the "silent majority" ...
.. now they are vocal. And they will get louder, stronger, and more influential the more they are demonized.