Failure to Launch: 9 Democratic Recruitment Disasters

Well, this is embarrassing.

Looks like Steve Israel and his Democratic recruits are finding out what we’ve known all along: Nancy Pelosi and her extreme liberal agenda aren’t sitting well with voters, and are proving to be a toxic recipe for 2014. Israel’s recruits are dropping like flies left and right. We can only imagine the number of Democratic failures to come in the coming months.

Check out the fails so far:

FAIL: OH-07 and OH-16: John Boccieri announced he has no immediate plans to run after being heavily recruited by the DCCC. The DCCC even conducted polling to try and get him in.

FAIL: MN-02: One of Israel most prized recruits, Sona Mehring announced she was dropping out of her race – only three week into her run.

FAIL: MN-06: Just days after Michele Bachmann’s retirement announcement, DCCC sweetheart Jim Graves announced he was pulling out of the race, leaving an empty Dem slot.

FAIL: IA-03: The much-touted Mike Sherzan dropped out of his race.

FAIL: IA-03: Just two weeks after Sherzan opted out, the Democrats second choice in this district –former State Sen. Staci Appel – did the same thing.

FAIL: CA-21: Last cycle Democrats attempted unsuccessfully to recruit Michael Rubio in CA-21. They tried again this time and instead Rubio opted for a lobbying gig with Chevron.

FAIL: CA-21: After Rubio opted out, Democrats looked to Leticia Perez – who went for a state Senate bid instead, leaving them with no viable candidate in one of their top targets.

FAIL: CA-31: Another real problem for Democrats: Last cycle, they recruited Pete Aguilar here – who went on to loss his primary. Well, what do you know – former Congressman Joe Baca has announced he’s challenging Aguilar in the Democrats No. 1 national target – a major headache for the DCCC.