Blue Dog Boyd getting a real primary challenge

[Nixon in '80]

We need to get rid of far right-wing deadwood like Boyd. He doesn't support the stimulus. He supported privatizing Social Security. I'm sure he has zillions of other crappy views, it's not like Taylor or Minnick or Edwards or Mathesion who have the excuse of conservative districts. This is all in a very moderate district. But you know what, I won't be sad if someone honest about being a Republican ends up replacing him. So we might as well try to get a real Democrat in there.

The Democratic Party needs more people like you.

[Nixon in '80]

One thing that I've noticed is that I read up and found the DKos's main page entry on Lawson doing this and they reacted negatively to it.  Quite the contrast I'm sure if you were to compare that to the GOP netroots

Gotta give it a few years... once the Democratic Congress turns out to be a failure (as all congresses... congreces?... congresses do) the left will turn on the moderates in their party, blaming them for not being "progressive" enough.

That is, if all people who post on pseudo-extremist websites are essentially the same. In my experience, they are.

[Nixon in '80]

Zell Miller wasn't exactly getting primaried either back in the day eh?  It has to do with pragmatism.  The only person they want to punish is Cooper over in TN who railed against the president on the bill, acting all blue dog hardcore when his district is Democratic.  Cooper changed his vote the second time around, much like Boyd did.

Miller didn't stand for reelection... and I'm pretty sure a lot of people would have wanted him primaried had he chosen to stand for reelection, even rational Democrats.

I agree wholeheartedly that the Democrats are better at being a "big tent" than the Republicans, but the Democratic coalition is pretty fresh and just happy to be in charge, while the Republican coalition is old, stale, and resentful.

[Nixon in '80]

Actually, it's more because the Democratic Party has no ideology beyond (often rather weak) opposition to whatever the Republican Party stands for (slight exaggeraton).

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