In my humble opinion if that was Trump’s “personal” touch then the man lacks sorely in personal. But, I do believe that fact was quite self-evident even before AF1 wheels hit the tarmac in PA. His speech to encourage PA GOP to come out and vote for Saccone missed the point entirely. Actually, Trump’s speech missed many points entirely except for one which was to remind himself, in front of an audience, of just how grand and wonderful he has been, is and will be in the future.
Saccone did about as little as a candidate can do to promote themselves in an upcoming election. Lamb out raised him 10X and that was from grassroots attempts with no special interest. Saccone raised, what? 660,000? And the national GOP Committee put in an additional 10 M to try and maintain a hold on a seat in a district Trump walked away with a 20 point win. Add to that the faces of the top GOP lawmakers stumping for him. As a group, his visibility was increased but even the Repubs viewed Saccone as “underwhelming.” There was so much more going on than the need for Trump to rub his personal touch all over District 18.
Lamb ran as a conservative Dem which was a wise choice in PA at the moment. The Dems need to be able to accommodate the varying degrees of “liberal” bias that they have come to be identified with. The DNC doesn’t hate guns or the ownership of guns, they hate the lax, unbridled entitled right the RWNJ feel trample common sense as well as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The NRA’s rhetoric that any type of constraint on gun ownership is a direct intrusion to the 2nd Amendment is distorted merely for profit and to promote chaos.
For Lamb to be against Pelosi isn’t anti DNC either. There has been a growing number of Democrats who feel Nancy’s time may be coming to a close and a new, fresher & more invigorating face of the future has been long overdue, according to many.
Lamb embraced stance on abortion that has been suggested as an approach the Left should consider for a while now. While he, personally, didn’t feel abortion was a good decision for him or his family, he still promoted the right of the women to decide which direction should be taken on an individual basis while respecting the SCOTUS decision.
The DNC needs to turn over the reins of the party to the young kids that are showing an interest in politics. It is time for the up & comings to find their niche in the cogs of the political environment of the 21st Century. It isn’t our parents DNC anymore, nor is it ours. Sure, they will make mistakes and trip and fall. So did we. But, we need the youth to get excited and involved in politics or it will become the stagnant bookend of the belly-up GOP that is bobbing around the waters of the cesspool they have created.
The Dems need be open to new ideas and not see change as an insult to the ideology we feel define the DNC. As we have seen the DNC isn’t defined which has been the entire problem leading us up to this point in time where we are dealing with the likes of a man called Trump. Trump and the GOP are fading and are desperately grabbing onto anything they can to take with them when the time comes for them to lick their wounds while out of favor (which by my estimations could be quite a while after they sanctioned this debacle in DC). We need to take this opportunity and run with it, offering no apologizes to those old and worn out ways we leave in our wake.
