Dear Democrats, Winning is HARD Work! Ask POTUS Obama

by @zizii2

Okay, let’s cut to the chase here. It seems as if Democratic Party poobahs think President Obama’s back-to-back electoral feats were a cake walk that anybody with a “D” beside their name can replicate. And so all we need is to dispense with an actual primary contest, crown our fore-ordained nominee, sprinkle some liberal pixie dust on a fawning electorate, then presto! we crush Republicans in 2016. At least that’s what I’m hearing from Liberal doyen, Barney Frank.

If that is what he and the Democratic Party establishment believe then they really have another think coming! I gotta break it to him and his ilk: We will suffer an apocalyptic bloodbath in Nov 2016, that will make 2014 look like a summer picnic by comparison. Here’s why: That mindset of entitlement is not how Barack Obama won TWICE. Let me repeat: Barack Obama re-wrote the blueprint for WINNING hearts and minds across a wide demographic swathe in this jungle of American politics.

He earned our vote the hard way; callused hand by callused hand! Policy detail by policy detail! Registered record numbers of new voters! Devised novel ways to motivate voters! Gave ordinary people a stake in his campaigns! In 2008 how many of us did not anticipate David Plouffe’s weekly maps and low-key video updates about strategy with bated breath, then headed out on the neighborhood canvass beat? It was OUR campaign afterall! We owned it with our individual 2 cents.

Even when he was an incumbent in 2012, in a tough political and economic environment, President Obama came back to us voters in humility to seek another mandate. Never took us for granted. NOT ONCE! He didn’t assume that the magic of 2008 would carry over to 2012! And he’s the one who electrified us in the first place but never himself basked in the hype. Always focused on us and the betterment of this country.

So the likes of Barney Frank and the braying “unnamed” advisers in a certain campaign have the nerve to ask that we avoid a tough nomination process. The latter have the gall to start undercutting VP Joe Biden, just cuz MoDo’s asinine mischief in the New York Times has spooked them? And where are the voters going to come from in time for the general election if they are not activated earnestly during the primaries with a contest of ideas?

Here’s the dirty secret. The Democratic Party Establishment has refused to come to terms with the depth of Barack Obama’s electoral feats. They think it was no big deal. I keep reading all kinds of reasons given to diminish the scale of his victories; 1) Oh 2008 was a Democratic wave election so anybody with a “D” would have won. 2) Hillary’s 18 million votes were super awesome and would have done well in the general. Sure! And if my Uncle wore a dress he’d be my Aunt!

All the Democratic candidates were going to fight on the “Kerry Map” and hope to take one swing state, with zero margin for error. Nobody except Barack threw out the fraidy cat Democratic Party minimalist map. We took the fight to Republicans in their stomping grounds and won ALL 9 of the battleground states; Iowa, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, New Mexico. Unheard of, but we won.

As a matter of fact President Barack Obama’s victories have masked the true state of the ossified Democratic Party. But for the blood infusion Barack Obama gave the Democrats in 2007-2008 and 2012, the truly abysmal state of the party, especially at the state level would have been even more glaring for all to see. Democrats have zero to write home about in terms of building followership at the grassroots level or any level. The Party has no movement, let alone movements, on the streets that fights for progressive values or applies the art of persuasion to unabashedly win NEW voters to our values. Nada.

The party turns tail and runs from Republican paper tigers at the sight of the slightest breeze. Democrats gave up competing in local races eons ago. So what do we get? The most rabid madmen and women taking over schoolboards, state legislatures where they shred constitutional protections with impunity. Why not? They have nothing to fear from a lily-livered opposition that does nothing but send howling emails from DNC headquarters that there are GOP monsters under its bed. Ferchrissakes at least break out the torchlight and LOOK under the bed!!! Naah!

In some swing states, the party headquarters look like a nook from Dickens’ Miss Havisham’s cobwebbed manse. Yet they had the nerve to complain about OFA’s style of activism, while sticking out grubby hands to get “the OFA donor List.” They want you and I to fork over our small donor money so they can buy and suckle the latest fancy blinkie!

So yes, Barney Frank, the target of your article may have been Bernie Sanders, but its reasoning has been invoked to tarnish any potential run by VP Biden. It IS wishful thinking to assume that we all rally pronto behind Hillary without energizing the coalition of voters who put President Barack Obama in the White House twice with record vote tallies; 69 & 65 million.

Democratic Party honchos, you know, just ask the MAN who KNOWS how to beat Republicans, how he did it. More importantly don’t take us voters for granted. No need inventing square wheels. Not gonna turn!