September 28, 2010 04:02 PM UTC

Dems to base: Stop Whining!

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• by: H-man

I never really understood abusive relationships.  

Why would a seemingly intelligent human being go back into an environment where the one who professes to love them instead treats them very badly?  What always amazed me was how the abuser would blame the abused for their treatment.  But, people don’t act that way anymore, do they?

The establishment of both political parties in Colorado has abused their base.  They have made decisions at odds with the views of their base and there has been a revolution of sorts brewing in both parties.  On the Republican side, it is seen in the face of the Tea Party, which has thrown off the yoke of establishment candidates with mixed results.  

On the Dem side, with the additional burden of overcoming incumbency, its results are less tangible, but no less real.  It manifests in a sense of continued disillusion.  Pat Stryker got hers, (solar company loans) but I sure didn’t get mine.  Andrew Romanoff built the house, but Michael Bennet was given the keys.

Enter Joe Biden, an uninspiring politician with a unique gift of incessantly wandering off message and speaking inconvenient truths. In response to the wide enthusiasm gap in the upcoming mid-term elections currently being enjoyed by the Republicans, he is quoted by Politico as stating:

Biden, speaking at a frozen yogurt plant in New Hampshire, said he wanted to “remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives. This President has done an incredible job. He’s kept his promises.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/s…

The Dem ruling class of Stryker and Bennet would agree with Biden.  They got theirs.  The Dem base, once promised hope and change, seems to have contracted something else.

Markos Moulitsas, of Daily Kos fame, summed it up well:

It’s idiotic is what it is,” says Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, one of Obama’s most pointed critics on the left. “If Democrats, with the White House and Congressional super-majorities, had delivered on what they had promised, and if people had jobs, no one would be whining. They have reaped what they sowed. They haven’t delivered on what they’ve promised – and instead of making the case as to why they would do if they are reelected, they are insulting people.

“It’s a far cry from Bill Clinton’s ‘I feel your pain,'” he added.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/s…

So is the Dem base in Colorado going to rally to Vice-President Biden’s call?  Do the women and minority groups that make up a disproportionate part of the Dem base feel inspired?  Do they feel that the Dems have delivered on what they promised?  Or, will they sit out the mid-terms and not walk the precincts and man the phone banks?

Like I said, I don’t really understand abusive relationships.