Not to put too fine a point on it but this Lamb fellow won a deep red Trump district becuase he presented as an eminently reasonable, moderate democrat. Marine combat veteran, pro-gun, hates Nancy Pelosi.
What's not to like?
Back in 2006 Chicago Mob boss and future Obama consiglieri Rahm Emanuel ran the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee. Under his leadership the DCCC recruited dozens of candidates just like Lamb, usually called Blue Dogs. One such example was former Redskins QB Heath Shuler, who got elected in South Carolina. An athlete, a businessman, and a practicing Christian, Shuler had nothing in common with Poxi Pelosi. He was eventually gerrymandered out. The rest of the Blue Dogs died on the alter of Obamacare. Basically Emanuel and Pelosi forced them to vote for the deeply unpopular bill, which led to the epic shellacking the party took in 2010. This was the plan all along.
But for a brief two congressional sessions these Blue Dogs secured a blue congressional majority.
They even wrote a book about it.
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