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2018-12-02 Home Front: Politix

Defeated Sen. McCaskill rips Democratic Party over ‘purity’ demands, ‘failure’ with rural America

[MSN] Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill
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, the moderate-leaning Democrat who was defeated in this year’s midterm elections, took swipes at her own party in an exit interview aired Friday.

In blunt terms, McCaskill accused fellow Democrats of demanding ideological "purity" from candidates and suggested their "failure" to connect with rural Americans contributed to her loss to Republican Josh Hawley.

"This demand for purity, this looking down your nose at people who want to compromise, is a recipe for disaster for the Democrats," McCaskill said in an interview with National Public Radio. "Will we ever get to a majority in the Senate again, much less to 60, if we do not have some moderates in our party?"

She also complained that media outlets make political compromise difficult by encouraging people to stay in "their own bubble" and look for "affirmation not information."

She made similar comments in a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee business meeting.

"I'm really most worried going forward about this place because the middle has atrophied so badly," McCaskill said. "I remember when I first got here, where we could have easily recognized 20 members of the Senate, of both parties on an equal basis that were in the room trying to find that compromise. That has become a very dangerous thing for senators now because the base of the party is very impatient with anybody who wants to compromise."

Posted by Fred 2018-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 When you are selling a totally defective product to completely undiscriminating buyers and still have a problem, you have a big problem. I'm sure she wonders why Missouri can't be like Caliphornia.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-02 01:08|| 2018-12-02 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Gerrymandering and its inevitable result: Balkanizing the general population into factions. As times go by the local politicians will compete to offer more outlandish promises to be reelected... radicalizing the factions.

Posted by magpie 2018-12-02 02:44|| 2018-12-02 02:44|| Front Page Top

#3 This will never get better. The Left's motto is "no enemies to the left, no friends to the right." This drives them further and further away.

Either they will win and enslave us, or we will vote them out. I'm not very optimistic right now, they have a lot of powerful friends in the media and internet giants who literally have the power to shape the way people think.

Posted by Butch Ulilet8032 2018-12-02 05:24|| 2018-12-02 05:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Dem elites hate "rural Americans" and everyone else who doesn't agree with their leftist, anti-American, anti-Christian/Jewish ideology. They have no desire to connect, understand, persuade or attract us.

I hope McCaskill is correct and they never win the Senate.

Posted by Creling Pelosi3622 2018-12-02 13:26|| 2018-12-02 13:26|| Front Page Top

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-12-02 15:33|| 2018-12-02 15:33|| Front Page Top

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