After the long Thanksgiving weekend, one might have thought that liberals would start to recover a bit from the election. Instead, at the national level we saw Hillary Clinton join with the Green Party to demand a recount in Wisconsin (and maybe Michigan and Pennsylvania). And in our Washington, as we highlighted last week, far-Left Democrats are seeking the ouster of their state party “leader”.
However, where the national effort seems to be primarily a fundraising one – as CNN reported, “Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s Thanksgiving fundraising blitz passed $5 million. The money is well beyond the $2 million mark the Green Party initially set, and Wisconsin party officials said that any additional money not used for the recount would be used to train Green Party candidates for local office” – in our state the goal appears to be moving the Democrats even further Left.
So, in our continuing series on lessons learned from the election, Shift takes a deeper look at the ideological fight taking place among the Democrats searching for inspiration now that Fidel Castro is dead.
As Seattle blog Publicola reported today, failed Secretary of State candidate Tina Podlodowski is considering a campaign for state party chair. The big-spending (closing in on $1 million) loser to incumbent Republicans Kim Wyman has plenty of complaints, saying it’s“clear we need a 39 county/49 legislative district strategy for Washington State, as well as full time organizing, better data, and a revamp of communications for both our party volunteers and the general voter. I’ve spent the last year traveling all 39 counties, and have a rather large ‘to do’ list based on conversations across the state.”
Now, we could nitpick, and actually challenge whether the Seattle-centric Podlodowski visited all the state’s counties, let alone actually talked to any voter outside of the urban centers where Democrats get their votes. If she had actually done so, perhaps she could have done better than winning three counties – the liberal bastions of King, San Juan and Jefferson.
Or maybe Eastern Washington voters heard her liberal message loud and clear, since she managed to get above 38% in just one (Whitman, proud home of Washington State University) of the 21 counties East of the Cascades.
But Podlodowski is not dissuaded by her own dismal performance. Instead, she says, “It’s clears that Dems need to be able to clearly communicate our values and priorities, fight for our values and priorities and be seen fighting for our values and priorities to inspire and educate. Leadership needs to really be willing to listen, respect, and reconcile disparate points of view. [The] next chair needs to build a lasting ‘bench’ and organization that is welcoming, nimble, and open.”
Now, it’s hard to say exactly what Tina means by “welcoming and open”, since she is known for being pretty close-minded herself as Shift has reported previously. But in a Seattle Times story on the “soul searching” Democrats are doing, fellow uber-lefty State Representative Noel Frame adopts Bernie Sanders language about what needs to happen to the state Dems, saying the “the party needs to refocus on ‘voters more than donors’” and “ ‘large areas of the state have been consistently ignored.’
The state party chair election isn’t scheduled to take place until January, so the liberals have plenty of time for more bloodletting. Conservatives can only hope they do so in public, so voters can see just how far to the Left the Democrats can go.
tensor says
So, who on the Republican side is taking the blame for Inslee’s cake-walk to re-election?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? BUELLER?!?
Biff says
There is no one to blame for the 4 year continuation of the “Generation of Failure” but King County liberals. If you weren’t such a dolt, you could look at the results and see Greenie won King County but lost the rest of the state. Without King County’s margin of 356,000 extra idiots voting for the doofus solely because of the (D) after his name, he lost by 70,000 votes. Get back in your safe space for another crying jag.
tensor says
…you could look at the results and see Greenie won King County but lost the rest of the state.
Wrong.
So, now most of Puget Sound is not in the state, geographical genius?
Biff says
I was right. you’re so much of a dolt you think a vote total comment was about geography.
“Have fun sitting motionless and impotent in traffic as yet another Sound Transit train, packed with us King County liberals, goes sailing past your rusting-out car”
1) You just admitted your glorious choo-choo will do nothing to relieve congestion. Nice going.
2) Do you have a location where this will happen? Since I venture to Seattle as rarely as absolutely possible, this has virtually no chance of occurring for decades, if ever.
3) The hubris of you Democrat comrades has no bounds.
tensor says
I was right. you’re so much of a dolt you think a vote total comment was about geography.
So, you’re saying that the county with one-third of all of our state’s voters had a large effect on our state’s elections?!? What an incredibly brilliant, insightful, original, and penetrative observation that must be. For you.
Since I venture to Seattle as rarely as absolutely possible,
Which is probably a good idea for someone who staggers about helplessly in paroxysms of spluttering rage at the mere sight of a crosswalk painted in colors! Colors!! Which are *not* white!!!1!
…you Democrat…
If you just keep repeating it enough times, it magically becomes Truth.
You know because you just kept repeating it until you knew.
Biff says
“So, you’re saying that the county with the largest number of our state’s voters had a large effect on our state’s elections?!?”
I’m sorry. I forgot my audience. I cited the large, complex concept of “margins” and vote totals by county and statewide to the collective idiot and you responded: “Huh, huh, he thinks King County isn’t in Washington, huh, huh, huh! Wait at least 30 minutes after tying your shoes then go back and look at: http://results.vote.wa.gov/results/current/king/ and tell us what conclusions you draw (other than “huh, huh, huh, demokrats r kewl, huh, huh,..huh, huh”, that is)
From your omissions we will assume you agree with the following:
1) Light Rail will never reduce congestion, despite the lies you were spoon-fed.
2) Although we pay for it, Light Rail will not be on the Eastside for decades, if ever.
3) Your hubris knows no bounds.
Thanks for the confirmation, comrade copy-and-paste.
All this is not unusual for a Democrat seized by paroxysms of off-topic hyperbole to cover the fact you have no point.
tensor says
What, exactly, is the point of complaining about how King County voted? We vote in counties, not by county, and there is no county with a population large enough to determine the outcome of a statewide election. Voters all over the state selected Inslee over Bryant; that’s why Inslee won. Please let us know exactly how much more explanation of that point you need.