Was Randy Bryce the most embarassing pander of the election?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Oh God yes.

Liberal PAC board member 1: So what can we do to improve amongst working class whites?
Liberal PAC board member 2: Oooh I have the perfect idea! There's this guy running against Paul Ryan. He's not a politician, he's a blue collar ironworker. And he has a moustache!
Liberal PAC board member 1: What seriously? That's perfect! Let's send this guy tons of money and increase his visibility nationwide. A blue collar worker with a moustache. I can think of no better way to show working class whites we're in touch with them.

That campaign and meme was pure cringe.

[IceSpear]

At least Dems could've gotten a respectable loss here if they nominated Cathy Myers rather than the meme candidate. But no, they just had to go with the Iron Deadbeat Jailbird who did worse than Hillary.

[IceSpear]

It's not just the pandering. It's the fact that (and IceSpear, DTC, and I warned everyone of this for the whole cycle) he would get destroyed once the arrests and child support payments (or lack thereof) came out. But a ton of hacks on here insisted otherwise.

I remember when Atlas told me I was wrong about the race being safe R because Paul Ryan's PAC was spending a lot of money there.

It's almost as if he had a personal stake in it...

[Zaybay]

Randy was definitely an overhyped candidate in an unwinnable district. Not only did he have personal issues(as IceSpear keeps pointing out), but the district was also one of the Most R and inelastic of WI, not even voting for Baldwin or the Rebecca Dallet when they won the state by large margins.

RIP IronStache

[Politician]

Randy was definitely an overhyped candidate in an unwinnable district. Not only did he have personal issues(as IceSpear keeps pointing out), but the district was also one of the Most R and inelastic of WI, not even voting for Baldwin or the Rebecca Dallet when they won the state by large margins.

RIP IronStache

It's not an unwinnable district (Obama won it in '08) but the matter is Ryan would inevitably be able to spend a lot of money on attack ads, and the Democrats had to double down by nominating the Iron Stache.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

I honestly thought IceSpear would be the one to start this thread.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I honestly thought IceSpear would be the one to start this thread.

The people propping up Bryce and that made him a meme mostly think like IceSpear.

[IceSpear]

I honestly thought IceSpear would be the one to start this thread.

The people propping up Bryce and that made him a meme mostly think like IceSpear.

Yet another mind numbingly stupid BRTD post to add to the pile. I've been the biggest critic of "Iron Stache" on this entire forum for months now.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I honestly thought IceSpear would be the one to start this thread.

The people propping up Bryce and that made him a meme mostly think like IceSpear.

Yet another mind numbingly stupid BRTD post to add to the pile. I've been the biggest critic of "Iron Stache" on this entire forum for months now.

I said he was backed by people who think like you. Not you yourself.

[IceSpear]

I honestly thought IceSpear would be the one to start this thread.

The people propping up Bryce and that made him a meme mostly think like IceSpear.

Yet another mind numbingly stupid BRTD post to add to the pile. I've been the biggest critic of "Iron Stache" on this entire forum for months now.

I said he was backed by people who think like you. Not you yourself.

How exactly? Have I ever said that Dems need to run WWC #populists in order to win?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I honestly thought IceSpear would be the one to start this thread.

The people propping up Bryce and that made him a meme mostly think like IceSpear.

Yet another mind numbingly stupid BRTD post to add to the pile. I've been the biggest critic of "Iron Stache" on this entire forum for months now.

I said he was backed by people who think like you. Not you yourself.

How exactly? Have I ever said that Dems need to run WWC #populists in order to win?

You are literally the only person who uses that stupid term so no, no one said that. However anyone thinking he was a good candidate clearly had just as condescending a view of working class whites.

[Yank2133]

Yeah.

Ojeda would be a close second though.

"JFK with tats" lol

[lfromnj]

Yeah.

Ojeda would be a close second though.

"JFK with tats" lol

tbf  he did massively outperform any democrat and just got ed over by racist hicks coming out for their god emperor. This will probably the highest performance in these counties for any democrat for a few decades.

[Xing]

I wonder how the pundits would react to the idea that a progressive lesbian from Madison did much better than an ironworker in a Wisconsin district.

[Yank2133]

Yeah.

Ojeda would be a close second though.

"JFK with tats" lol

tbf  he did massively outperform any democrat and just got ed over by racist hicks coming out for their god emperor. This will probably the highest performance in these counties for any democrat for a few decades.

Yeah, maybe I am just hard on Ojeda after listening to some of this justice Democrats claiming his type is the future of the Democratic party.

[Landslide Lyndon]

He shouldn't have even made it through the primary.

Imagine if the "evil" establishment recruited and openly supported another candidate.
Bernie bros would be apoplectic. I guess now they got him off their system.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

He shouldn't have even made it through the primary.

Imagine if the "evil" establishment recruited and openly supported another candidate.
Bernie bros would be apoplectic. I guess now they got him off their system.

LOL, I was hoping he'd lose the primary.

[DrScholl]

He was basically the prototype of what Atlas believed would save the Democratic Party.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Imagine if Republicans, in order to win Hispanic voters, recruited a poncho and sombrero wearing Latino man with a big droopy moustache who does the Mexican hat dance in every single campaign ad, along with his catchphrase "Me Gusta Fiscal Responsibility!"? And then it turns out that man was a convicted drug dealer, but his backers wave his charges away with the claim that "makes him more relatable"? And he only ran because he was making epic dunks on a particularly hated Democratic incumbent, who proceeds to retire and consequently end like 99% of the reason anybody cared about the race to begin with? And the district had like no Hispanics anyway, making the whole charade pointless?

That basically sums it up.

[Jeppe]

Yeah.

Ojeda would be a close second though.

"JFK with tats" lol

tbf  he did massively outperform any democrat and just got ed over by racist hicks coming out for their god emperor. This will probably the highest performance in these counties for any democrat for a few decades.

What, Manchin did better than him on the exact same election night. Jim Justice swept WV-03 in 2016. Nick Rahall (the guy who Ojeda once tried to primary) had held onto that seat decades, and only lost in 2014.

[lfromnj]

Yeah.

Ojeda would be a close second though.

"JFK with tats" lol

tbf  he did massively outperform any democrat and just got ed over by racist hicks coming out for their god emperor. This will probably the highest performance in these counties for any democrat for a few decades.

What, Manchin did better than him on the exact same election night. Jim Justice swept WV-03 in 2016. Nick Rahall (the guy who Ojeda once tried to primary) had held onto that seat decades, and only lost in 2014.

I meant besides Manchin and im talking from now on in federal races. Obviously some rando governor probably can win those racist hicks. these racist hicks will never elect a democrat again.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

It's not just the pandering. It's the fact that (and IceSpear, DTC, and I warned everyone of this for the whole cycle) he would get destroyed once the arrests and child support payments (or lack thereof) came out. But a ton of hacks on here insisted otherwise.

Anyone who would actually care about this type of non-issue is someone who was never going to be voting for a Democratic candidate for Congress ever anyways.

[IceSpear]

It's not just the pandering. It's the fact that (and IceSpear, DTC, and I warned everyone of this for the whole cycle) he would get destroyed once the arrests and child support payments (or lack thereof) came out. But a ton of hacks on here insisted otherwise.

Anyone who would actually care about this type of non-issue is someone who was never going to be voting for a Democratic candidate for Congress ever anyways.

Which is why he did far worse than Baldwin, Evers, and even Hillary in this district, right?

By the way, you're objectively wrong here, as you often are. I voted straight ticket D in 2012, 2016, and 2018, but voted Republican for the PA state Senate in 2014 because the Democratic candidate was a hot mess deadbeat dad like Joe Walsh and the Iron Deadbeat Jailbird (and the fact that the Republican candidate was relatively moderate and palatable, otherwise I'd probably have done a write-in.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Imagine if Republicans, in order to win Hispanic voters, recruited a poncho and sombrero wearing Latino man with a big droopy moustache who does the Mexican hat dance in every single campaign ad, along with his catchphrase "Me Gusta Fiscal Responsibility!"? And then it turns out that man was a convicted drug dealer, but his backers wave his charges away with the claim that "makes him more relatable"? And he only ran because he was making epic dunks on a particularly hated Democratic incumbent, who proceeds to retire and consequently end like 99% of the reason anybody cared about the race to begin with? And the district had like no Hispanics anyway, making the whole charade pointless?

That basically sums it up.

And then the state's incumbent Republican senator, an anti-immigration hardliner from the state's most staunchly conservative area wins re-election easily and outperforms said Hispanic Republican amongst Hispanics. And the state's very controversial Democratic Governor loses a very close election that year to a forgettable Generic R type who also outperforms said candidate.

[Adam Griffin]

What I didn't get about the whole thing was how people thought a blue-collar populist type was the best bet for this particular district. It's like people just saw "Wisconsin" and thought "wow - he's the right guy for the job!". Are any of the WI CDs less blue-collar than WI-01?