The really painful thing to watch has been the Daily Kos people's litmus test for Democratic purity in this race. These guys are just as annoyingly goofy about their ideological purity as the tea party Republicans that they oppose.
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This is a heavily Democratic district, so they are having the luxury to act like that. If it was a swing seat downstate then I'm sure nobody would care if the Dem candidate had an A rating from NRA.
Exactly. Democrats are running anti-NRA ads against McConnell in Kentucky. Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to blow an otherwise safe race.
I didn't know that Mitch McConnell is expected to run in a Democratic primary.
I was referring to the downstate district example you were making. The point is that progressives tend to shoot from the hip regardless of political realities, this causing political damage in already challenging situations - whether in a Democratic primary or in a general election.
No they don't. If they did then we would have seen in the past primary challenges against people like Ben Chandler, Mark Pryor or Kent Conrad.
Only Blanche Lincoln was seriously challenged and that was because she was considered a sure loser in the general.
