{"id":32872,"date":"2018-03-20T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32872"},"modified":"2018-03-20T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T15:30:19","slug":"democrats-really-dont-want-diversity-of-opinion-in-their-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32872","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Really Don’t Want Diversity Of Opinion In Their Ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hill is reporting today that Representative Daniel Lipinski<\/a><\/span> (D-Ill.) will be strongly challenged by Marie Newman, a candidate supported by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party<\/a>. Representative Lipinski is pro-life, and the progressive Democrats want him removed from office.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

But Lipinski, who has represented the Chicago-area<\/a> district since 2005, has shored up support from both party leaders in Washington and the House Democrats\u2019 campaign arm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lipinski, a co-chairman of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition<\/a>, is no stranger to primary challenges from the left. But now he faces his toughest reelection race to date, coming under fire for voting against marriage equality, ObamaCare<\/a> and the DREAM Act<\/a> in 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lipinski was also one of only six House Democrats who voted in 2013 for a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, a vote that\u2019s inflamed pro-abortion rights activists who see Lipinski as out of step with his party on the issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whoever earns the Democratic nomination on Tuesday will be all but certain to win the seat in November, since it\u2019s a reliably blue district that Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span> carried by 15 points in 2016. And Republicans have disavowed their only candidate in the race: Arthur Jones, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That has Democrats who support abortion rights<\/a> wondering why the party needs to compromise by running an anti-abortion rights candidate, when any Democrat is practically guaranteed to carry the seat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Beyond Tuesday\u2019s primary, progressives argue that other Democrats with voting records like Lipinski\u2019s should expect major pushback at the ballot box.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a time when blue-dog Democrats were welcomed in the party. The recent special election in Pennsylvania<\/a> showed that moderate Democrats can win elections. I wonder how successful radically-left candidates will be in the middle areas of the country.<\/p>\n

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