DLC hands Hawaii election to GOP

The Democratic Leadership Council is the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.

The DLC claims that its goal is to boost Democratic strength by running more "moderate" candidates (meaning conservatives), but now it's proven that it doesn't even care if the Democrats win. The DLC is a Big Lie.

On May 22, there's a special election in Hawaii to fill the U.S. House seat of Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie, who is running for governor. The Republican candidate is Charles Djou. Democrat Colleen Hanabusa also opted to run. But the DLC deemed Hanabusa too liberal, so they decided to run their own candidate, the far more conservative Ed Case. (Interestingly, his cousin is AOL founder Steve Case, but that's beside the point.)

So the DLC thinks it can elect a Democrat by splitting the Democratic vote (in an election with no runoff)? Sorry, but that doesn't pass the guffaw test.

Apparently, they're trying to elect Djou just so they can blame Hanabusa for not pulling out of the election. If anybody's the spoiler, it's the DLC's Ed Case.

Now the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - led by DLCers - has announced that it's pulling all its money out of this election altogether, thus conceding the election to the Republicans. And they're blaming Colleen Hanabusa for it.

How stupid. First, the DLC said the Democratic candidate was too liberal. Then they decide to run their own superspoiler and split the vote. Then they blame the original Democratic choice for not being driven out of the campaign. That's election strategy, DLC style.

Some massively unpopular Republican nutroll is about to get elected in a 70% Democratic district with only 35% of the vote!

Luckily, this seat won't be in GOP mitts for long. Everybody knows that in November, it's going to go right back the Democrats, because the laws are different for regular elections. So this sabotage by the Democratic Losership Council is all for naught.

(Source: http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2010/05/dccc-pulling-out-of-hawaii.html)