O'Malley is running, and the Democrats are running scared . . . . . for good reason. We explain.

Past Mayor of Baltimore and exGovernor of Maryland,  Martin O'Malley,  announced his intention of running for the presidency.  His record as Mayor and Governor are less than stellar,  but,  as far as some in the Progressive/Socialist party (aka Democratic Party) are concerned,  he is to the Left of wherever Hillary will be,  and that makes him an acceptable choice for the Democrats.  

I once was a Democrat and voted for Jimmy Carter, enthusiastically  . . . . . . .   the first time.  To this old, exJFK Democrat,  it is almost humorous to realize that Hillary is the more conservative offering,  in that party,  today.  You have Hillary,  O'Malley to her Left,  Elizabeth Warren to the Left of O'Malley,  and, then,  the admitted socialist,  Bernie Sanders.  All are socialists,  of course.  All favor restrictions on gun ownership and free speech. All favor sky high taxation. All favor the death of coal.    None favor states rights.  All approve of Obama's agenda and willingness to rule as an authoritarian.  O'Malley is the only one with real world experience,  if you count the politics of "mayor" and "governor" as such,  and I do.  The other three,  are political theorists with no real world experience,  at all.  Heck,  Hillary has been chauffeured around the planet for more than 19 years and has never owned a car.

Maybe one more butt-whipping will convince some,  within the Marixist dominated party we call "Democrat,"  that "Left of Left" is not a good place to be.  

What is fascinating, is the fact that Hillary and O'Malley are actually running against the failed policies of Obama  . . . . . .  without either of the two being "called out" on the fact.  Hillary wants to the "representative of the Middle Class,"  arguing that the Middle Class has no representation in today's politics,  and O'Malley's campaign motto is, "Rebuilding America."  Of course,  Obama ran on "fundamentally transforming" this country,  and often brags about his fantasy of being "for the Middle Class," so,  how is it,  that Hillary and O'Malley are not running away from Obama?   

We are months away from the time when "the rubber hits the road,"  but,  the question remains:  How will the Dems frame their escape from the Obama years?  We are looking at a massive hourly reduction in pay over the past 6 years,  moving from a 40 hour work week to a 30 hour week because of ObamaCare directives,  an economy that is so bad that the food stamp population has grown from 27 million to more than 45 million and a workforce that is the smallest since 1978   . . . .   because 9 million folks have given up looking for work and are no longer counted in employment/unemployment statistics.  You have a black population that is chronically out of work, under-educated,  and mad at the world  (yet they keep voting for their plantation bosses in the Democrat Party).  And, the last three election cycles have given us fewer moderates within the Democrat Party.  How do the Democrats run on such a record?  

And it gets worse.

Obama has driven "moderates" out of the party,  leaving nothing but the radical Left,  in charge of the party's future.  

Look, anytime you have Occupy, the forces of CHAOS,  ACRON, the SEIU, Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam,  Al Sharpton and his eternal threat "No Justice, no Peace," the Congressional Black Caucus and its love affair with the Communist world  (the Castro's in Cuba and the Communist leadership in Venezuela), people like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright and Eric Holder, and the current Mayor of Baltimore,  all working to move the nation into a borderless,  One World community,  you have a political party as radicalized as never before.  

The Democrats are at their weakest,  in terms of political power and influence,  since 1928   . . . .   nearly 100 years.  They have just 17 governorships (to 31 for the GOP), have lost more than 4,000 state and local positions over the Obama years,  and, have lost the last two mid-terms (2010 and 2014) by the most one-sided margins in American history.  Heck,  even in winning the 2012 presidential elections,  Obama took in 3.5 million fewer votes than in 2008 (Bush took in 12 million more votes in his re-election campaign, btw).  

The question is critical:  How will the Democrats campaign themselves out of the mess they are in?  Personally,   I have no clue.  The fact of the matter is this,  the Marxist Progressives  (Woodrow Wilson and FDR were "progressives" but not "Marxist Progressives"),  have done all that they can do.  Their time is nearly up,  and they know, full well,  just how critical, is this coming political election cycle    . . . . . .   and,  they are facing the strongest set of GOP opponents in my life-time.  

The next 18 months should be very interesting.