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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 01:40 PM Jun 2012

Is criticizing the President's stand on Bain capital by Democrats some kind of

campaign strategy? It is happening too often to just be chance. Bill, Deval Patrick, Ford, Booker, Rendel. and others we don't know have all spoken out.

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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
1. I think some Dems think it is bad political strategy
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 01:43 PM
Jun 2012

And their vanity won't let them keep it to themselves. (And, of course, their golf buddies are always bitching about it.)

It may well be a bad strategy, but since Clinton and Patrick and Booker and Rendel can actually call the WH to talk about the wisdom of the strategy they should not be criticizing it in public (!!!)

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
2. There is something to see with dems. They so good at knifing each other. At least republicans
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 01:48 PM
Jun 2012

stand together even when they are wrong. Dems politicans think only of themselves no longer the greater good. This is a new breed of dem. Corporate dem. We are all pushed under the bus no matter who will win the next election. What they are doing is shooting the president in the heart.

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
6. That's what I've been thinking. Say what you will about Republicans
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 02:11 PM
Jun 2012

but they won't knife each other in the back. At least, not publicly.

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
7. Let's be frank
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 03:26 PM
Jun 2012

There is a fifth column in the Democratic party, whose whole job is to make sure the country cannot shift leftward. Yes, the DLC was part of it, so was Americans United. They are not concerned with winning, as being the minority party is like having a blank check for doing nothing, an eternal excuse to say "well those mean GOP won't let me do anything."

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