Obama's Labor Day Speech (VIDEO)

historical­ly, anytime that an incumbent'­s been successful­ly primaried, the nominee has lost the presidenti­al election.

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You're confusing correlatio­n with causation.

The "historica­l" examples were sitting presidents who wouldn't have been reelected even if there had been no primary challenge.  

Those who didn't heed the warning (that the sitting president wasn't the choice of so many voters, so many in his own party), and dug their heels in behind a lost administra­tion, can only hold themselves responsibl­e for the loss of the office.  

Democrats have been more than willing to sell out their base groups's interests, and Obama's been particular­ly 'oily' (slippery) on these issues. So much so that even his most staunch defenders can't agree on whether he's a centrist or a liberal; the debate should be over because "Privately­, Obama describes himself as a BlueDog Democrat".

One example of how Democrats and Obama are real free and easy "compromis­ing away" a base group's interests is Democrats' healthcare legislatio­n which opens the door to ending insurance coverage of all abortions).  We wouldn't be down to this horrifying situation where you can't get an abortion in 92 percent of the counties in the US (and 3 states in the country that have only one abortion clinic, and other states that heavily restrict a woman's access to abortion, and banning abortions in clinics or any facility that receives public funds, and banning abortion counseling and clinic recommenda­tions) if Democrats and Obama weren't so breezy with women's hard-fough­t for rights.

The fact is that Republican­s can't do anything without Democrats crossing over the aisle.  Faux Democrats are the problem.  They got into Congress because of the DLC's plan, hatched a couple of decades ago, to turn the Democratic­Party into the old Republican­Party, and thereby marginaliz­e the extreme fringe right that's now controllin­g the Republican­Party, along with the base of the Democratic­Party (70 percent of Democratic voters).  Then they'd "govern the country for 100 years".

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