If we lose the 2008 GE, who will you blame?

[Guaranteed]

I know who I'd blame, although I guess it's who I always blame. Because it's always their fault.

The freaking MSM.

If we lose in 2008, it will because Sen. Clinton was our nominee, and if Sen. Clinton is our nominee it's because the MSM decided it should be her. If she gets the nomination and loses, I will never forgive those assholes.

The media truly should know by now the responsibility that they have. They can't pull this crap election after election and then blame the Democrats for "nominating" a bad candidate.

[begin_within]

1. Diebold

[Guaranteed]

3. Right.

Why not nominate a decent candidate who will win?

[saracat]

2. I will blame the MSM and the Dems who nominate her.

[Froward69]

9. I could not say that better

:pals: :toast:

[RiverStone]

19. Me too!

I continue to be baffled at how some folks refuse to acknowledge what they don't want to see. I want a true DEM in the White House.

You may recall, there was also a select group of Dems that were very confident Dukakis would win...

Though not even the first primary vote has been cast; things could change and I will do all I can to help them do just that!

Of course, Al Gore could do it in a heartbeat!

[silverojo]

21. Same here

I'm hoping the Repukes will nominate Ghouliani and that the rumored anti-choice third-party candidate will siphon away plenty of Republican votes.

But with the way Repukes tend to rally around any creature with an R in front of its name, I do worry.

Hillary has so many negatives, esp. in the west, I just hope that the Repukes won't be able to use her against our other Dem candidates, the way the Dems will no doubt use Bush against those Repukes who supported him.

[superkia]

4. The media can only control the weak minded, so its not all their fault.

You need to leave some blame to the people casting votes for someone who is not the best candidate for our future.

[lligrd]

5. The American People

who are too lazy or busy to pay attention and do something about saving their country.

[Kahuna]

27. That's who I'd blame. The majority of Americans are

brain-dead lemmings. They are persuaded like little children by 30 second sound-bytes. Shameful.

[Johonny]

41. Yip

If you believe you're better off today than you were only 6 years ago, then you deserve more debt, more war, more money going to big business instead of domestic programs... How long are the American people willing to be a tool.

[pinto]

6. I doubt we're going to loose in '08, spin and all.

Just sayin'

:kick:

[rocktivity]

7. Present company included?

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[PretzelWarrior]

8. you.

I will blame you, and put a pox on you and on all your descendents.

[hedgetrimmer]

10. Chad Hang Ing

Really, cause (blame) is based on a result from an action or event. That action or event has yet to transpire, is your intent to circumvent the cause to produce a different effect by acting upon the event that is to come?

The magnitude of a election gone astray can not lie in only one cause, it is multidimensional like a person, Sen. Larry Craig for example... what led to his wild bathroom antics is very complicated as is an election, the subtle nuances are far beyond finger pointing. I will begin with myself and end with myself in blaming. I will do all that I can to ensure a knowledgeable, informed and fair election. A government by, for and of the people, I am one of those people and so is every other citizen in the great nation. Do what you can.

[Laurier]

11. If we lose, blame can only be cast at the feet of we, the voters.

There is little sense in presupposing defeat, and even less sense in pre-assessing blame. It is far better to get the message out and get the vote out, without being all defeatist and whining in advance.

[EFerrari]

12. We won't lose. They may try to steal it again

but there's no way we're losing.

I could run and win, people are so pissed off at the Thuggery.

We have to work election protection, seriously. Because the only way they'll "win" is to steal it.

[LaPera]

13. Dems over-confident and doing nothing about the 85% voting machines still in

place around the country, easily hackable, the republicans purging the Dem voting rolls and Dems still doing nothing about any of it - The bullshit Holt bill certainly isn't the answer....and finally the voters, who are so swayed by television on who to vote for and believing the polls as the reason to vote for a candidate the republicans are drooling for to bring out their voters with hate & fear of that candidate....certainly the republicans aren't just sitting idly by and hoping....they are always working on all of their slime tactic they'll use while keeping it all in the background.

[emilyg]

14. I'll blame DU.

:rofl:

[SoCalDemGrrl]

15. Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia

[bjobotts]

16. Ain't gonna happen. Stop making people paranoid or they start acting

crazy and compromising on candidates because of fear of "electability" issues..."Oh no, we might lose the GE so we better back hillary even though Kucinich is the candidate we want."... It's bullshit. After the horror of the Bush administration Dems will win the presidency by default. So whomever wins the democratic nomination will win the presidency...period.
Stop making people paranoid with this bullshit of what if...

[zonkers]

17. Nader, of course.

Just kidding.

[donheld]

18. Another vote for

You. :hide::D

[slackmaster]

20. There are other ways we could lose in 2008

Eruption of a third party of disgruntled Democrats and disgusted independents, for example. It's happened before.

It looks to me at this early date the most likely contest will be Clinton v. Giuliani. It may turn out that we lose simply because it turns out that people despise Giuliani less.

[taterguy]

22. This guy, for obvious reasons

[Hekate]

23. I will blame rigged voting machines.We're due for a landslide, but believe me, that can be fixed.

As it stands, I will work for whoever gets the nom, and will keep my fingers crossed the entire night of the election.

And this time when we win I will endeavor not to dance right into the concrete planter on my patio at midnight! :P

Hekate

[mainegreen]

24. Blame Canada!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

25. The netroots.

:hide:

[sniffa]

26. teh gays

and teh atheists.

oh, and the Looney Left.

[NMMNG]

31. Damn, you beat me to it.

It's always our fault you know. Uppity gaytheist asserting ourselves and demanding our equal rights.

[Jamastiene]

47. Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

It's always the evil gays, atheists, and the Loony Left. It's always our fault. :eyes:

[zanne]

28. Bite your tongue!

There's no way in the world we're going to lose the general election.

[sniffa]

40. exactLy! just Like in 2004

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[opihimoimoi]

33. Attacking Hilliary is a Pub Plot...so is attacking the Dem Congress and Nancy

Its all about deep conniving and Plotting by them Pubs.... they send an army of their peeps to divide and conquer....Many are paid to do this...

Remember Carl Sheeler?

He came to DU as a DEM asking for help to impeach Bush ...wanted monies to run for R I Senator and for his Billboard? and when he lost the Primary to Whitehouse...he went over to support the Republican candidate...who lost. Carl had revealed himself to be a Pub in Dems clothing...a true DINO...

The Pubs are insidious as termites...they come to destroy by undermining...

Divide and Conquer is their tactic

[Hekate]

42. Opihi, aikane, I agree with you totally on this. nt

[truebrit71]

46. Yeah, it's the Dems attacking the Queen of Cackle that will be her downfall...

...not the millions of people in this country that despise her to their very core that will be to blame...

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. I Will Blame

I will blame corporatists like George McGovern, Jim McGovern, Joe Wilson, Shelia Jackson-Lee, Kendrick Meek, Charlie Rangel, and Ron Dellums for propping her up...



:sarcasm:

[CT_Progressive]

34. All the people who didn't vote / didn't vote for the (D) candidate.

[Catshrink]

35. The balls-less Congress

We had a chance to bring to light the skulduggery of this mis-administration. But they've ignored subpoenas and flaunted their lawbreaking. What do Dems do? Write letters. Hold hearings that go nowhere.

In '06 voters voted for action. Nada.

on edit: forgot this: :popcorn:

[begin_within]

36. Katherine Harris

[murbley40]

37. The American voting public.

WAKE UP !

[leftofthedial]

38. the "democrats"

who serve the same masters as the repukes

and voted pro-war, pro-torture, anti-worker, pro-corporation and anti-civil-liberties at every turn since 2006

[snappyturtle]

39. I would blame the Dems in the House and Senate...our leaders!!??

They send the biggest, mixed, entangled, screwed up message every time they open their mouths. What they say and what they do are not the same. Then I would blame Diebold and MSM as a couple for the second spot and third would be the candidate....whoever. imho

[Virginia Dare]

43. The Democrats who stayed home or wrote in....n/t

[truebrit71]

44. HRC (if, God forbid she's the nominee)

...and the MSM

[book_worm]

45. Don't Democratic primary voters choose the nominee? If Hillary wins most of the primaries

and caucuses isn't she entitled to be the Democratic nominee?

[mmonk]

48. The media and the House of Representatives.