There will be many post-mortems in the days and weeks ahead. In absolute terms, we lost. Our candidate came up short. And there will be the inevitable false equivalencies about our grassroots efforts to move the Democratic Party back to the left with Teabagger attempts to move their party to the lunatic fringe. But that's merely more misinformation. Our candidates haven't been on the left side of our own political spectrum, they have been squarely in its middle. Those we have opposed haven't been squarely in the middle of our own political spectrum--they have been former Republicans and opponents of our own president's centrist agenda. The Teabaggers, however, have been taking down mainstream members of their party, while they themselves represent values that most Americans do not share.
Come autumn, both the Teabag Republicans and the Dino Dems will discover some truths that are less apparent during primary season. The electorate isn't moving to the political polar fringes, it is moving to the left. Teabaggers will win Republican nominations, but we will see how many of them get elected. Conservative Democrats will retain some of our party's nominations, but we will see how many of them hold on to their offices. We put a scare into the Democratic Party establishment this week, but that establishment will be even more frightened when they try to figure out what happened after November.
There's been much glee from certain parts of both the Democratic party and the Teabagger Republicans concerning the one election that we did not succeed in electing "our" candidate. But the above piece on Daily Kos most certainly states what and how we netroots feel, and are still feeling.
We're only invigorated by this defeat.
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