2018 Will Be a Banner Year for Blue Dogs and Conservative Democrats
Democrats are unique in their willingness to sabotage their own legislative priorities in order to win seats.
A question was recently asked on Quora as to why there were no Republican candidates who supported Medicare for All, free college, ending the wars, green energy, etc.
There are no Republicans that are running on any of these wildly popular policies. Nowhere. Not even in the so-called “blue” districts and States, where one might think that such policies would help them.
Which begs the question: why don’t Republicans, like Democrats, modify their platform and policy positions to better appeal to the specific political preferences of the population in their District or State? After all, the Democrats are famous for saying that they “have a big tent” and that “what works in one District may not work in another” — and so on.
Indeed, Democrats are never short on excuses for running conservative candidates. The DCCC, the SCCC and the DNC itself are known to lavishly fund and support such candidates. They even have a name for such conservative Dems — they are called “Blue Dogs” and they have a very powerful and rich coalition in the Congress and the Senate.
