Legal Commentary

Blaming The Voters

By Big Tent Democrat

So Markos posts about waning Latino enthusiasm for Dems and one of the first comments to the post is this (from a guy we like and respect no less):

Hard for me to understand Hispanics voting for a candidate from a party that demonizes them. Yes, I can understand disappointment with Dems, but voting for bigoted Rs makes no sense.

I happen to agree with this sentiment but find it disheartening that Democrats, from the President on down, seem to think the proper reaction to this type of finding is to "blame the voter."

I want to try this one more time to see if my mic is on - POLITICS IS STUPID! But the STUPIDEST politics is blaming the voter. Please stop it Dems. Which reminds me of this from Jon Stewart.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on October 04, 2010 (boomark / email).