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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDipshit Andrea Mitchel just said DEMS were never interested in Judge confirmations....
it was always the Republicans' thing....time for me to go to CNN or CSPAN....I cannot stand her prattle....
radical noodle
(8,017 posts)If liberals and progressives had really cared about judges, they would have come out in droves to vote for Hillary.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)...her emails!
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)the Court is a PRIMARY reason why they drag their butts to the polling place every. single. election.
Us? It takes an existential threat to Roe to MAYBE draw us out.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Freethinker65
(10,106 posts)On their pandering to religious zealots. I think many Democrats unfortunately also believed this.
I warned them. They continued to vote for these GOP assholes while enjoying the social, environmental, and personal protections they received from previous Democratic policies. Now those policies are all being dismantled.
procon
(15,805 posts)Dems have never had a policy or long term plan to bump up judicial appointees.
Hekate
(91,006 posts)...for midterm elections in the same numbers as the GOP faithful. It is not being a "dipshit" to say so.
Historically, Dem voters want the excitement (or something) of voting the top of the ticket every four years.
The GOP has been taking the Long View for decades -- midterms are when they trot out initiatives and propositions that may not have a chance in hell of passing (or maybe they will) but get the juices pumping: God, Guns, and Gays, typically. And while those Republican voters are in the voting booth, they vote for Republican candidates, and those candidates become office holders, fill the US Congress and State Houses, appoint judges, and make the laws.
Not so the majority of Democrats, apparently, or we would not have gerrymandered districts and GOP control top to bottom in Washington. Or we could just SHOW UP.
Just one last thing -- I've been here a long time, starting in Dubya's misbegotten reign. Our first opportunity to throw him out was not the massive protests in Washington, but the election cycle. But among our political junkies here, people who should know better, there were knock-down drag-out fights over good Democratic candidates who didn't fulfill every progressive fantasy -- so some people were gonna stay home or vote 3rd Party. I started just saying SCOTUS, SCOTUS, SCOTUS. But no -- that wasn't any fun at all. This nonsense didn't start yesterday.
dsc
(52,173 posts)the fact is we pulled out all the stops for the affordable care act. I got texts from nearly every group I am subscribed to, we had rallies all over NC, and those rallies were huge. I got some texts, a few rallies were held in big cities, none were huge.