Yellow Dog Democrats
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A "Yellow Dog Democrat" is a political term for a staunch, loyal member of the U.S. Democratic Party who votes a straight party ticket under any circumstance, famously stemming from the saying: "I’d vote for a yellow dog if it ran on the Democratic ticket!"
The Yellow Dogs are out in force this election year, and I’m envious: Republicans lack the discipline and foresight to grasp the concept that it’s control of the power structure that’s the ultimate issue, not the foibles and defects of individual members of their party or even their party’s particular pieces of legislation. I’ll vote for Maine’s squishy Republican senator Susan Collins in November because her defections on key issues notwithstanding, she’s included in the head count as a Republican when it comes to determining who will control the Senate, Republicans or Democrats.
The party in the majority determines the Congressional agenda, the chairmanships of all committees, approval of federal judges, and so on. The Democrats understand this, and so do most Republicans, I hope, yet there are many Republican voters who are perfectly willing to cede control to the Democrats in the name of ideological purity and simply stay home on Election day, “to teach these people a lesson”. The Democrats will thank them, but won’t reward them.
Here are just a few examples of Democrat solidarity that all display their willingness to vote for an individual who’s been exposed as a communist, a drunk, a wife-beater, a fraud and a Nazi, just so long as they can regain control of the senate:
Bill Maher urges Maine voters to elect Graham Platner, despite the candidate’s ‘scary’ issues
He’s a monster, but he’s our monster, so vote him in. Mind you, Mahr is half-Jewish, and although he’s a non-practicing Jew, he’ll still be on the extermination list when the Nazis and Muslims take over — because no price is too high, even if that price is his own life, if his Democrats can run the country. That’s party discipline.
…. He then added, "And two, get used to it. America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people. And as long as we live in a representative democracy, we are always electing our reflection in the mirror. I wish the tattoo was the scariest thing about Platner. It's not. That would be his solution to a home invasion, which is to rape the home invader."
"Let's get real about Graham Platner," Maher said. "The big story is the Democrats can likely take back the Senate in November if they win Maine. But their local candidate… is after the primary this week, let's just say, a guy who has a backstory that screams, ‘don't ask,’" Maher said.
And:
Wait, Did the NYT's 'Me Too' Reporter Really Say That About Graham Platner's Domestic Abuse Allegations?
And:
