Democrats eager to sell their soul with anti-abortion candidates

Rep. Ben Luján (D-NM)

Ever on the lookout for a winning strategy to recoup their losses, the Democratic Party has thought up a novel approach to help them win more elections: the basic rights of half their voter base are now considered expendable.

Democrats will not withhold financial support for candidates who oppose abortion rights, the chairman of the party’s campaign arm in the House said in an interview with The Hill.

Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) said there will be no litmus tests for candidates as Democrats seek to find a winning roster to regain the House majority in 2018.

“There is not a litmus test for Democratic candidates,” said Luján, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman. “As we look at candidates across the country, you need to make sure you have candidates that fit the district, that can win in these districts across America.”

And you’ll never guess what they think is be worth rejecting a core principle for – actually, I kid, you already know the answer.

Luján, serving his second term as the DCCC’s chairman, has cast a wide net for candidates. A map on his office wall highlights districts held by dozens of Republican that he hopes to oust in the 2018 midterm elections.

“To pick up 24 [seats] and get to 218, that is the job. We’ll need a broad coalition to get that done,” Luján said. “We are going to need all of that, we have to be a big family in order to win the House back.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) have both argued against party litmus tests, saying there’s room for people with different opinions on abortion. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), another influential voice, has echoed that argument.

The Democrats had a choice: appeal to their base’s interests, push charismatic candidates that get voters motivated as Obama did in 2008, and go-all out on a progressivist, hard-Left offensive to counter the increasingly regressive and destructive Right … or jettison the concerns and needs of the majority of their base and focus instead on peddling lukewarm candidates who have no problem throwing long-time voters under the bus in their bid for elected office. Also known as doubling down on the same failed attitudes that landed them where they are now.

They seem to think they can sell their soul to the devil and come out victorious.

(via RT by @pzmyers)