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Democrats fearing 2020 election scramble for panic button with loser candidates
NY Post ^ | 8/3/2019 | MichaelGoodwin

Posted on 08/07/2019 7:46:04 AM PDT by Signalman

For nearly three years, Democrats were certain they would eat President Trump’s lunch in 2020. The 25 dreamers seeking the party’s nomination are testament to the conviction that one of them definitely would be the next president.

Oops.

Suddenly, after just two debates, the Nervous Nellies are climbing the walls. Many Dems are worried that the battle is too nasty and too negative, and that the front-runner, Joe Biden, is looking awfully ­wobbly.

Equally worrisome, Biden’s strongest challengers, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, are leaning so far left that their appeal could be limited to the most radical elements. Some of their supporters are even attacking the sainted Barack Obama.

What to do? My modest suggestion: Panic!

All three top contenders are looking like losers in a general election. Here’s why, starting with Biden.

Years ago, in a discussion about how hard it is to get elected president, the late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan offered an example. Bob Dole, his friend and Republican colleague, was so perfectly qualified and would have been chosen as prime minister in a heartbeat if America had a parliamentary system, Moynihan insisted.

The discussion took place after Dole was crushed by Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential race. Dole was his party’s grand old man when he got the nomination, having been in the House and Senate for a combined 35 years.

He was the vice-presidential nominee in 1976, when Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford, and sought the top spot in 1980 and 1988 before dropping out.

A World War II hero who was seriously wounded and awarded two Purple Hearts, Dole finally got his turn at age 73, but lost in a landslide.

Dole, now 96, is long retired, but his political doppelgänger — Biden — seeks one last hurrah.

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1 posted on 08/07/2019 7:46:04 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

They will lose Bigly for one reason:

GUNS..............


2 posted on 08/07/2019 7:48:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Signalman
Democrats fearing 2020 election scramble for panic button with loser candidates

Michael LaVaughn Robinson (aka moochell 0bama) and of course, Madam Hillary Benghazi are warming up on the sideline and ready to pull it out for the commie dems.

3 posted on 08/07/2019 7:50:21 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ('DEPLORABLE' Member of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy & Biden Dreg and DAMN Proud of it!.)
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To: Signalman

I wouldn’t say Bob Dole lost in a landslide, inasmuch as Bill Clinton got less than 50% of the popular vote.


4 posted on 08/07/2019 7:52:49 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Signalman

I didn’t write this, some guy on Breitbart did but wow, it really nails the Rats...pass! it! around! EVERYWHERE!

1. Cory Booker says he wants to punch the president.
2. Joe Biden says he wants to beat up the president.
3. Maxine Waters says to get in Republicans’ faces out in public.
4. Jimmy Kimmel and other late night hosts joke about assassinating the president.
5. Snoop Dog makes a video of a fake assassination of the president.
6. Kathy Griffin poses with a severed bloody head of the president.
7. Johnny Depp jokes about assassinating the President.
8. Madonna says she wants to blow up the White House.
9. Black Lives Matter chants they want dead cops and fry ‘em like bacon.
10. Antifa routinely assaults conservatives.
11. AOC calls our border agents Nazis and refuses to condemn violence against them.
12. The so-called “Squad” supports terrorists of Palestine and Hamas and routinely spews anti semitic rhetoric.
13. Congress refuses to call out Ilhan Omar for making anti semitic remarks.
14. Rashida Tlaib calls the president a motherf**ker.

Yet Trump is the one inciting hatred and violence?


5 posted on 08/07/2019 7:57:08 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Signalman

The slate of candidates they have are soooo far left they cannot even hope to make a run for the ‘center’ in the general election.

They have to pander to their so-called ‘base’ lunatic fringe that wants everything free and everybody else to pay for it.

That is a sure recipe for electoral disaster.

Trump will get reelected and his coat tails will be long and deep.

I’m talking super majorities in both houses and maybe even turning a few blue states red.....................California.....................


6 posted on 08/07/2019 7:59:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

bkmk


7 posted on 08/07/2019 8:11:51 AM PDT by FalloutShelterGirl (Cool! I found my original screen name!)
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To: Red Badger
ALL LIBs are lunatics...it is only a matter of "to what degree".
8 posted on 08/07/2019 8:13:53 AM PDT by hal ogen (not funny<font)
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To: Red Badger

If the GOP and President Trump back gun control, it will be them that lose, regardless of how bad the Kommie Klown Kar is.


9 posted on 08/07/2019 8:18:13 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Because, of course, every single candidate in the Kommie Clown Car is going to be much closer to your position on the 2nd Amendment issues than Trump and the Republicans...


10 posted on 08/07/2019 8:21:49 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (It's the corruption, stupid)
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To: Berosus
I wouldn’t say Bob Dole lost in a landslide, inasmuch as Bill Clinton got less than 50% of the popular vote.

43% Bill

11 posted on 08/07/2019 8:21:55 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

There are many people who consider 2A to be a red line.
They will not vote for gun grabbers, regardless of jersey.


12 posted on 08/07/2019 8:29:11 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Yet Trump is the one inciting hatred and violence?

Tucker is right, The media and the Dems are "projecting".

13 posted on 08/07/2019 8:49:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Berosus

Always worth noting: in 1988 Michael Dukakis lost to George Bush Sr. with 44% of the popular vote.

In 1992 Clinton won with a plurality of 43% of the popular vote, thanks to Ross Perot.


14 posted on 08/07/2019 8:56:11 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Michael LaVaughn Robinson (aka moochell 0bama) and of course, Madam Hillary Benghazi are warming up on the sideline and ready to pull it out for the commie dems.

The timing for such a sideline candidate to enter the race, I would think, would be in September. So we should know soon.

15 posted on 08/07/2019 9:01:45 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And I’ll bet they miss their noses when the Kommie Klown Kar suddenly controls the police and the military with all their armor and advanced weaponry...and the only way they can keep their homes, cars, pensions and kids’ college tuition is to follow the Kommie’s orders (just like they all followed Obama’s orders.

Some AR-15s aren’t going to do much when up against APCs and armored, trained SWAT units protecting their established position in the Grand new society.

Gun Rights voters had better realize the stakes now are much higher than they’ve ever been before. The Leftist Dictatorship is ready to roll. And if they get the keys to power from the vote, they also get the keys to all the advanced weaponry and the trained forces...and they won’t blink for one second using them on their domestic enemies.

Always consider the consequences.


16 posted on 08/07/2019 9:09:58 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (It's the corruption, stupid)
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To: Signalman

“Dole, now 96, is long retired, but his political doppelgänger — Biden”

Bob Dole doesn’t deserve to be insulted this badly. Yikes.


17 posted on 08/07/2019 9:25:06 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

That day is coming.
Better to still have guns when it comes.


18 posted on 08/07/2019 9:31:18 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Red Badger
Trump will get reelected and his coat tails will be long and deep.

One more time, I beat the drum for him to hold a rally or two in California. It would panic the Democrats into wasting money in a "safe" state. More importantly, it would rally the forgotten Republicans who would swarm out, vote for him, and elect down-ticket Republicans as a byproduct.

He'll need all the help he can get from a new Congress.

19 posted on 08/07/2019 10:54:31 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: Signalman

Harris is the one that scares me.


20 posted on 08/07/2019 11:34:18 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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