Chris Matthews Thinks Democrats Have Already Lost The Senate

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – MARCH 13, 2014, 10:11 AM EDT

Chris Matthews dispensed some hard-nosed political advice on Thursday to Democrats — the party that's closest to his heart and in desperate need for some encouragement.

When Republicans talk about entitlements, Matthews said Democrats should "tell the voters they're going after Social Security and Medicare."

GOP-backed efforts to require voter ID, Matthews said, should be described as voter suppression of minorities.

And voters should be reminded that pro-life candidates are "coming after abortion rights."

"You've got to get out there and put a very strong, bold picture on what the Republicans would like to do and say that's what they're going to do," the MSNBC talking head said on "Morning Joe."

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chris-matthews-democrats-senate-2014

[lonestarnot]

1. Tweetie has a history of blowing

in the political wind. Which ever way it is going he'll be there.

[Fumesucker]

5. Not the only way Tweety blows

The first four rows need raincoats and hats when he speaks, well shouts.

[lonestarnot]

6. He is a master at blowing.

[BlueCaliDem]

11. That's true. But in this case, he's correct.

Republicans are getting way with a lot of code-speak and outright lies these days. It's Democrats' job to define that code-speak and expose the lies because Corporate Media just won't since they back Republicans.

Sometimes I get the feeling that the Democratic Party is under the wrongheaded assumption that the American people are intelligent enough to discern truth from lies, group-tested rhetoric from facts. They aren't. They just don't have the time or patience.

Republicans and their moneyed-masters, in their infinite arrogance, understand that. They understand the basic concept of marketing that they've perfected using the KISS strategy: Keep It Simple Stupid. They write their ads and speeches that even a six-year-old can understand them. Democrats get too long-winded, too professorial, and in an America raised on fast food, t.v. dinners, and 100 mbps internet speeds, ADHD favors the Republicans' messaging.

[Glitterati]

2. ROFL, so even Chris Matthews has figured out

Democrats have to campaign as DEMOCRATS!

Wow, who wudda thought?

[Lex]

3. He's a genius!

[winter is coming]

4. Encouraging news, given how often he's wrong. n/t

[Rex]

7. Rex thinks Chris Matthews lost his mind years ago fawning over the BFEE.

Poor guy need a spittle cup.

[JHB]

13. It was before that, when you could have pointed over his shoulder and said...

..."Holy cow, it's Bill Clinton's penis!" and his head would have whipped around so fast he could have snapped his own neck.

[Rex]

17. Yes!

You are SO correct...he LOST his mind over Bill's private parts!

[BlueCaliDem]

8. I agree with Matthews. He's actually sending out a warning to Democrats who

are being surprisingly meek these days.

Democrats should listen to him. They continue to bring a knife to the Republican-instigated gunfight and that only emboldens Republicans while it demoralizes Democrats.

Decipher the Republicans code rhetoric for the world to see and let the people know they're being bamboozled and taken advantage of. As long as Republicans are silent when Democrats are in campaign mode (which they currently are), it means they're failing to get their message out and no one is hearing them.

Rev up the rhetoric until Republicans begin to wail. THEN you'll know that you're message is a winner.

[Fuddnik]

9. If Chris Mathews quit talking for 30 seconds, he'd fart himself to death.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. He's right. Democrats need to stop being cagey about their views

and stop being so meek. In a lot of races, nobody knows what the Democrat stands for and the voters think the Republican candidate supports issues that he's totally against (or vice versa). Democrats need to stand up and be proud of what they believe in and they need to tell the truth about Republicans -- that the GOP wants to destroy every program that helps people and let corporations run the government. Republicans have almost succeeded with their plans. People need to know, and they need to see that we're facing some dark times if we don't turn this country around soon.

[JHB]

12. Tweety's leg is quick to tingle, but Spidey-sense it ain't

Dandelion seeds have more weight than Matthews "thinking", which tends to resemble surfing on his feelings of the moment than anything of lasting value.

[Le Taz Hot]

14. Christ Matthews also thought

Michelle Bachman would win the Republican nomination in 2012.

[malaise]

15. Tweety also thought that Hillary would beat Obama in the primary

Ah well!

[leftyohiolib]

16. well they probably will judging by comments from people about how the democratic party isnt

enticing them to gotv. look at wisconsin a 50-50 split and florida miserable turn-out that led to a loss.

[napkinz]

18. Tweety is right about this part ...

“The Democrats are in kind of a conciliatory, soft mood. They want to negotiate, they want to make deals across the aisle, they want to fix Obamacare,” Matthews explained. “On the Republican side, it’s much harder. They want to get rid of Obamacare plain and simple and they don’t want to negotiate so much.”

With “passion” on one side and the other side “not sure of themselves,” Matthews predicted more Republicans will come out to the polls this November.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-matthews-predicts-democrats-will-lose-the-senate-in-2014/





WHICH IS WHY ...

IT'S TIME FOR DEMOCRATS TO EMBRACE OBAMACARE

John Cassidy
3/12/14


Trying to pussyfoot around Obamacare was an awkward strategy, and, evidently, it didn’t work. If other Democrats are to avoid meeting Sink’s fate in November, they need something more convincing to say about the Affordable Care Act than “mend it, don’t end it,” which is now their default position. But what could that be?

Here’s a heretical idea. Rather than parsing the individual elements of the law, and trying to persuade voters on an à la carte basis, what about raising the stakes and defending the reform in its entirety as a historic effort to provide affordable health-care coverage to tens of millions of hard-working Americans who otherwise couldn’t afford it? Instead of shying away from the populist and redistributionist essence of the reform, which the White House and many Democrats in Congress have been doing since the start, it’s time to embrace it.

What would that mean? It would involve reaching out to the Democratic Party’s core voters—lower-income people, minorities, highly educated liberals—and portraying Obamacare as the fulfillment of the great human-rights project that began in the nineteen-thirties, under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was expanded during the nineteen-sixties, under Lyndon Johnson. That message wouldn’t merely be more honest; it would be more effective in getting Democratic voters to turn out in November, which is essential if the Party isn’t to suffer a repeat of 2010.

More: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/03/its-time-for-democrats-to-embrace-obamacare.html

[polichick]

19. He's right - speak the truth in bold language. Nobody wants mealy-mouthed leaders...

Problem is, too many "Dems" agree with RepubliCon policies.

[napkinz]

20. Tweety opening Hardball tonight with this theme ... "Fighting Back"

Democrats have to warn the people what they have to lose if Republicans take the Senate.

Tweety says talking compromise is not the way to win. Democrats have to stop being soft.

He says he believes Republicans in the House will go for impeachment if their party wins the Senate.

[Cha]

21. And, how many times has he been wrong?