GOP Strategist: Netroots Nation and Liberal Populism Key to Defeating Hillary

[ErikJ]

Netroots Nation and Liberal Populism Key to Defeating Hillary
Cathy Reisenwitz | Jul 21, 2014

Last week Netroots Nation, formerly Yearly Kos, went down in the city that best represents how well a corrupt, overweening government can respond to changing economic conditions. Detroit, Michigan hosted a meetup for particularly whiny and net-savvy liberals got together to whine about how the Democratic Party isn’t in touch with the people. And it’s within the belly of this discontent beast that we can see the key to defeating Hillary at the ballot box.

Netroots refers generally to the lefty blogosphere. It’s kind of like the Tea Party of the that side, in that it’s people who are more liberal than mainstream left wingers. For example, when Vice President Joe Biden was speaking, a faction of the audience had to be escorted out for chanting “Stop deporting our families.”
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They also take social justice more seriously than mainstream Democrats. A candidate for state representative in Michigan asserted that water is a human right and called on the crowd to call Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s office to stop the water shutoffs for Detroit residents before Biden got up to speak.

These young, liberal voters may not all know about Hillary Clinton’s frankly establishment Republican stances on foreign policy and spying and collusion between business and government. But a candidate like Rand Paul could help bring these deficiencies to light. Rand Paul has stood up to President Obama about NSA overreach, extrajudicial killings, punishing whistleblowers, staying out of foreign conflicts and crony capitalism. Rand Paul would be able to, if not woo these young liberals, at least show them that they should stay home for Hillary.

Either way, it should be the goal of the Republican noise machine from now until Election Day to show the lefty young uns that Hillary Clinton is NOT one of them.

http://townhall.com/columnists/cathyreisenwitz/2014/07/21/netroots-nation-and-liberal-populism-key-to-defeating-hillary-n1863762/page/2

[4now]

1. Republicans whistling past the graveyard.

Clinton would grind Paul into dust.

[NaturalHigh]

2. "(A)sserted that water is a human right"...

Yeah, the nerve of the bastard.

I imagine the folks at Netroots probably have views that are quite a bit to the left of mine, but come on now. Do we really have to argue about whether or not water is a human right?

[JHB]

3. "more liberal than mainstream left wingers": gotta love that wingnut perspective

Scrambles the usual order of intensity and thinks it's a perfectly normal statement.

[stevenleser]

4. As I keep telling them every time I am asked, there is 0 chance any real progressive votes for Paul

No progressive is going to vote for someone who wants to not just gut but completely remove pollution laws, protection for workers, minimum wage laws, and implement as pure Laissez-faire capitalism as he can get away with that would undoubtedly accelerate wage inequality and make the rich even much richer than they are and put the coup de gras on the middle class and create a huge poor class.

At the risk of being accused of using the "no true Scotsman" fallacy, if that is OK for you, how can you claim to be at any point on the left spectrum?