Go Wild, Jack

As a response to polls showing Mangy Mongiardo 18 points ahead in the Democratic primary to replace Jim "I Hate Poor People" Bunning, the following from Jack Conway's campaign is just pathetic:

With less than three months until the primary election, Jack's campaign continues to pick up momentum and much of that is thanks to you. Because of our grassroots supporters, we're on a path to take back Wendell Ford's United States Senate seat. I know you're committed to this campaign, and that's why Jack wanted me to give you an update on our latest news.

With less than three months until the primary election, Jack, you are losing to the one and only Democrat in the state who can NOT beat Aynrand Paul in November.

Which is just fine with me - I bailed on your worthless ass back in September.

But as a true lefty, I can't resist giving advice I know you're going to ignore. What the hell: I love saying "I told you so."

You can't out-DINO Mangy, and you can't out-repug AynRandPaul. You're 20 points down and falling. You have one option and one option only: go the full liberal monty.

There's a precedent of a full-blooded liberal winning in a repug district: Alan Grayson in Orlando. Not even the Old Fifth is more conservative than Orlando.

Come out in favor of health care reform, but only to get a basic bill in place that can be quickly amended into single-payer. Medicare For All!

Tell Big Coal thanks for keeping our state in feudal dependence for 200 years, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. We're taking all those tax subsidies you've been wasting and building a renewable energy industry that will put China to shame.

Demand a massive, $2-trillion jobs bill that will put 10 million people to work on public projects immediately.

Demand tight regulation that will prevent Wall Street from defrauding a single investor ever again.

Insist on reversing the last decade of stealing taxes from the middle class to further enrish the obscenely wealthy: return tax rates to those during Ronald Reagan's administration. That will drop the deficit by about half.

Demand immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, and a radical restructuring of the defense budget. That's another half of the deficit gone.

Say all of this loudly, proudly and repeatedly. Call Mangy a coward for abandoning Democratic principles and values, and AynRandPaul a tool of the teabaggers and their corporate masters.

Seriously, Jack, you have nothing left to lose. You keep running as a pale republican, the primary is not the only thing you're going to lose; it'll be the end of your political career.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will be checking out the two Democratic candidates who are not DINO Blue Dog cowards: Darlene Price and Maurice Sweeney.

Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....