Who are these "Democratic Strategists" that say we need new candidates?

[redstateblues]

These mysterious people are referenced in a number of articles, most recently in EJ Dionne’s WAPO op today. Why can’t they come out of the shadows?

[LonePirate]

1. They are people who think Biden is failing and they only want a moderate or establishment nominee.

[Demsrule86]

2. Well they will be happy to know that Biden is not failing...and will be the nominee.

[LonePirate]

3. They obviously do not think he will be the nominee so that is why they are speaking out.

[Demsrule86]

7. He is the front runner when you look at all the polls...and I expect part of this is they have

been convinced by the false media narrative that Warren is leading and believe she will lose a general. But she is not leading, and Biden will win the states we need.

[Demsrule86]

5. By the way, a person who appeals to moderates can get elected...and is not the BS category

of 'establishment'. Despite all the wishful thinking going on at the moment by many (not saying you),this is a center left country and we will lose if we have a candidate who runs too far left in the primary to move to the center in the general without appearing to 'flip flop' (remember Kerry?).

[blm]

4. They are the timid moron wing.

We would have had public option in the ACA and NOT lost control of the house in 2011, but for the incessant whining of the Dem ‘strategist’ class warning their clients not to stray too far from the Republicans on certain issues.

[Demsrule86]

10. You have it exactly wrong. We did not have the votes for a public option and had the far left

had Obama's back, we would not have lost the house nor the Senate. It would be a different world today. The fact is there are more moderate voters than those voters on the left...and we forget that at our peril. We have already ceded certain states to the GOP by not practicing our most effective strategy...50 state strategy where you run candidates who can win in their districts or states. We are big tent, when we forget this, we always lose.

[Perseus]

14. "and had the far left had Obama and Biden's back"

Please don't leave Biden out, he needs to share the good and the bad. I think Obama should have sent Biden to negotiate with the far left to bring them on board, if Biden can negotiate with republicans imagine how easy it would have been to negotiate with far left.

[Blue_true]

16. It was the left that cost us the 2010 election.

All the positive change that was done between when President Obama took office and the election of 2010 was not enough for them, some pissed and moaned loudly and in the end followed Ed Schultz' suggestion to not vote to teach democrats a lesson, soon after Schultz went back to essentially being a rightie.

The votes were not there for a Public Option in 2010, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senate President Reed wisely realized that and got as much in the bill as they could get passed. You can talk about "possibilities" until the cows come home, but in our current system, nothing happens without votes, unless we our President do a Trump and ignore the Constitution when parts of that document is an obstacle.

[George II]

6. I think they're "pundits" that are running out of things to say.

[Perseus]

15. If they are not showing their faces it could be Russians too.

[Hortensis]

8. Nobodies. WE're the people. :) If WE think we need any, we'll move 'em up.

We have some good ones still running, and some good ones we could call back. If we don't it'll be because we like what WE've already chosen best.

And while we're still considering our options, maybe also consider that, whether he's one's favorite or not, we're very fortunate to have a generally well liked and respected, widely popular candidate for the others to strive to best. Just think of the alternative. We could have several "upper tier" candidates all struggling to generate enough liking and enthusiasm to hold first or second place by the skin of their teeth for more than a couple weeks.

Big no to listening to 2 years of opinion pieces by people who have to make a living by somehow getting people keep reading rehashes and pot-stirrings for that whole time. Their venal churnings destroy convictions and turn their victims into defuddled, demoralized idiots.

[pecosbob]

9. They are parroting Kremlin talking points

[hedda_foil]

11. No, this is on a group of influential "establishment" Dem consultants who push neo-liberal policies.

Read blm's post above.

[BeyondGeography]

12. People who don't care for Warren or Sanders and could have access to Biden or Buttigieg

but aren't jazzed about either one.

[TidalWave46]

13. It's a story written before the calls for supporting evidence are made.

They aren’t stories except to those who feel all warm and fuzzy reading them.