Mr. Feingold “Mr. True Alternative”: Stop Lecturing The President!

I am fucking tired of this righteous, election losing types of progressives telling me we have to be principled when the cards are stacked up against us.

In a phone interview with huffingtonpost, Feingold said:

I think people will see it as phony that Democrats start playing by Republican rules. People will see us as weak and not being a true alternative and just being the same as the other guy. And as I have said before, to me this is dancing with the devil.

“The president is wrong to have embraced the corrupt corporate politics of Citizens United and that’s what you’re doing when you start using and consorting with super PACs. They can raise unlimited amounts of money from wealthy individuals and corporations and often they can do it in total secrecy.

…I am a supporter of the president. I will continue to support the president. But on this one I couldn’t disagree more.”

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Rant to follow below the fold…

Some people just don’t have a fucking thinking brain to understand what is stacked up against us. Feingold might be a progressive but he is a progressive who lost his seat because he can’t think outside of the box to achieve the fierce urgency of now. When 200 people are raising 30 million dollars to attack our Democratic President, it is a fight we must get ready for. While it is inevitable because of the campaign finance laws, we can’t live by Two Sets of Rules, as Jim Messina, Obama 2012 Campaign Manager puts it:




Last week, filings showed that the Super PAC affiliated with Mitt Romney’s campaign raised $30 million in 2011 from fewer than 200 contributors, most of them from the financial sector. Governor Romney personally helped raise money for this group, which is run by some of his closest allies.


How stupid has someone like Russ Feingold must be to think even if you don’t agree with the idea of Super PACs, not to make use of them if your opponent is gearing up to destroy and crash you with a money bomb financed by the top 1% who own the majority of this country? I would think any reasonable Democrat would think that it would be impossible to counter such powerful interests with only $20 dollar contributions from the grass roots and without the same level of funding that can compete with the Republicans from the likes Buffett ain’t going to cut it this time around. The game has change thanks to the SCOTUS and the player has to change its game as well.

Is the system fucked up? Hell ya, it is. Do we like the idea of Super PACs, hell NO but Feingold should be yelling loud at the SCOTUS for the Citizens United decision that got us into this mess in the first place and not at the President who is trying to ensure we are in-route to moving this country in the right direction. May be what Feingold wants is for Obama to lose but then what? Without winning the Presidency, you can’t fix decisions made by the SCOTUS as there will be 2 or 3 seats that will be vacant in the next cycle that will have a much more significant consequence than the Citizens United ruling.

For Pete’s sake, why don’t some holier than thou Democrats understand that Republican will use our morality against us? Don’t you know Obama’s opposition to this kinds of campaigning is clear but he is forced to compete in order to level the playing field, to have a chance to correct things like the Citizens United’s ruling. Don’t this people think losing the White House and Senate and without taking back the House, you can correct Citizens United’s ruling regardless of how noble their ideologies are.

So, Mr. Feingold, if you really want to support the President, you have to start fighting them heads on in a pragmatic way. That is how you win election this days. Not the old fashion ways that got you retiring so early.

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9 Responses to Mr. Feingold “Mr. True Alternative”: Stop Lecturing The President!

  1. sjterrid says:

    Haven’t these people learned from the midtown election the only reason most of these tea party members were able to win their election is because they convinced enough people to stay home.
    After all, your right he did lose the election. I just wish these people would shut up! I believe the only people who care what the people on the extreme left is saying, weren’t going to vote for Obama Anyway. Most Democratic and Independent and even some republicans have a favorable view of President Obama and an unfavorable view of any of the republicans running.

    • TiMT says:

      Some people just have to buy attention by talking down on the President as if their have a moral superiority. Dude can’t even defend his own seat as an incumbent and now he is talking about how to run an election. I say, please save me the BS.

  2. Thank you for this rightous rant. I am so tired of the holier than thou emprogs giving advise after they have lost their own race.

    • TiMT says:

      Tell me about it. The thing is it is Huffington that called to seek his reaction knowing dude is a freaking Professional Lefty who is going to foam at the mouth. Anyway, this is going to be old news in a minute. I was just pissed when I heard what he said. Bullshit…he thinks it is “dancing with the devil”.

      • nintendowii10 says:

        I bet Feingold truly is the one dancing with the devil… I’m calling it now, he’s most likely getting paid by the Koch Bros to attack the President for using a SUPER PAC. Notice that he was SILENT until President Obama decided to fight back.

  3. nintendowii10 says:

    Like Milt Shook continues to point out, it’s because of high turnout that Democrats win. And these emoprog losers want to DEPRESS Democrat turnout over PATHETIC non-issues. You want President Obama to LOSE because he wants to fight the power of the evil SUPER PACs by using a SUPER PAC himself? Good luck with getting rid of Citizens United with a President Romney in office, IDIOTS!!!!

  4. blackrberry says:

    Russ Feingold is just another arrogant emoprog who feels entitleted to scold and harangue Pres. Obama. The far-left is imploding because they are blinded by their privilege. They will not accept leadership from Pres. Obama. They are being exposed and marginalized. Emoprogs will have to be wrenched from the mics and cameras because they crave attention and seek to control not only the President but the Dem agenda.

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