Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Why Coakley Lost

A commenter on Balloon Juice nails it down tight.
Balloon Juice Blog Archive Like Deja Vu All Over Again: "And the reason this happened is very simple. The people handed the Democrats a tremendous amount of power and said “We want change.” And the Dems responded by saying that they like the status quo just fine so long as they’re in charge. It’s not surprising that they’re suffering consequences for this."


I'm reading a lot of "we lost because we're too liberal" from Democrats. That's bullshit. Coakley lost because in 2008 the American people said "Change please", and they didn't get it. They didn't get it from a lily-livered spineless Congress, and they didn't get it from Obama. Remember his slogan was "Hope"? Maybe it should have been "Wish" or "Pipe Dream".

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