Democrats - Digging a deeper hole

The Washington Examiner has an article telling of Democratic strategy that we hope goes badly awry.

What thrills the Left will scare away the center

By: Chris Stirewalt

Democrats are counting on this fall's elections to be a battle of the bases -- enthusiastic liberals against inflamed conservatives.

The party may take a beating at the ballot box, but an enthusiastic liberal base will hold losses down and leave the president with a governing majority. Or so the argument goes.

.......It may take years for Obamacare to fundamentally change America, but it has already done its work on the Democratic Party.
Democrats have long told themselves that past failures to achieve big goals could be attributed to wimpiness. It wasn't that their initiatives were unpopular, but rather that Democrats did not pursue their goals with the kind of ruthlessness that Republicans did.

The myth of the virtuous loser comforted Democrats in the hard years from 1980 to 2006. Why had America moved to the Right? It wasn't backlash against big government and a corroded culture. It was that Republicans had manufactured those concerns and then exploited them.

The drive to enact a new national health program was politically predicated on the argument that it would give the Left a reason to vote.

Democrats had lots of ideological reasons for wanting to enact the plan, or one even more liberal. But it was the belief that somehow passing the unpopular plan would be a political advantage that finally got anxious members of the majority party to start kicking in doors.

Now, Democrats believe that the time has come to be bolder still. They mean to convince the American people that the party so long associated with dithering has become a party of steely resolve. No more Mr. Nice Guy.

Read more at the Washington Examiner. They are using some really faulty reasoning here.  They have blinders on if they have not noticed the poll numbers and the numbers who show up at Tea Party, in particular the one this past weekend in Searchlight.