2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy hasn't DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ been fired yet?
Heads must roll. No whining, no excuses.
2016 can't be here soon soon enough ... and she's not the person to get us to victory!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Who knows?
Going into the convention though.... we need a strong organizer!
Travelman
(708 posts)If a strong organizer is what's needed (and I would agree that is the case), then it's BLATANTLY clear that DWS most certainly isn't that.
She has been one embarrassing gaffe after another, something that the Rs have used to just beat people with like a club. After that Politico article a month or so ago, I at least got some more insight into what's been going on. She talks about the party, but she acts in self-interest, and it just so happens that occasionally those two swerve into the same lane.
Someone above said that the better idea is to get someone who doesn't have a day job. I would agree. The job of being the chair is, for lack of a better description, to be a "hired gun:" someone who has a solitary purpose of bundling the party together and urging them on to go out, get motivated, and most importantly VOTE. DWS talked a lot about what a great ground game the Democrats had in the GOTV department, but it seems pretty damned apparent to me now that that talk was just that: talk, not reality, not action.
I don't know who should be in that position, but I know that she definitely shouldn't be.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)We need new congressional leadership.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)All three have to go. Pelosi and Reid have done their service. It's time to mov on.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)LoisB
(7,231 posts)4139
(1,893 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)She suppressed all the potential threats to Business as Usual. She re-focused the party on the No-State Strategy, and moved us a long way toward that goal.
randys1
(16,286 posts)Not necessarily you yourself alone, but that whole "Democrats aint much better than the cons cause they are all the same almost"
I mean that is kind of your and your friends spiel, right?
You see I actually agree with you for the most part but I dont know if you or your friends are for real or not or if you are here and elsewhere to cause unrest and distrust thus causing folks to NOT vote, or not.
I dont know what to believe anymore, or who.
What I know is I too think DWS has been a disaster and she needs to be replaced...
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)S
BP2
(554 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)...they are politely waiting for her to resign.
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)A return to a 50 state strategy,and a chair who is full time..but I'm not holding my breath...
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)How much time could a sitting congresswoman realistically have to focus on running the party?
Mass
(27,315 posts)Dems need new leadership.
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)His 50 state strategy worked. What ever the hell DWS did was a complete flop.
BTW - she should have the decency to resign after mishandling of this election.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)She outraised the Republicans at least as far as hard money goes.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)I'm sick to death of second-stringers repeatedly leading our party into compromise and defeat, thereby providing aid and comfort to the radicalized right wing in this country. Enough.