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Dionne: Trump era is further degrading politicians
San Jose Mercury-News ^ | October 19, 2017 | by E.J. Dionne Jr.

Posted on 10/19/2017 12:22:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Hostage

To my mind, the largest dis-qualifier for a politician seeking

an office is when they publicly say “I always wanted to be

a/the _______________”

Someone wanting something that badly is reason enough to deny

to them, IMO.


21 posted on 10/19/2017 12:47:19 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When guys like Dionne and his employers (Amazon/Washington Post) stop printing anonymous sordid attacks every day, there will be no need to respond in kind.


22 posted on 10/19/2017 12:53:17 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Howdy Doody was smarter and better looking.


23 posted on 10/19/2017 1:01:27 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>>I am one of the very last people in the United States who does not consider the word “politician” to be an insult. On the contrary, the work politicians do is important because politics is a good and essential thing in a free society. <<

Rather than being “one of few that holds.. ‘politician’ to be an insult,” it is considered a compliment to the nearly 1/2 of the country that want a totalitarian leftist government to take over everything. You know, people like you, dionne.


24 posted on 10/19/2017 1:03:11 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Every Californian who supported "sanctuary state" has blood and ashes on his/her hands)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I remember this asshole from the 1980’s.

He was a communist-left liberal back then too.


25 posted on 10/19/2017 1:04:53 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And asshole what’s your point?


26 posted on 10/19/2017 1:10:09 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Okay E.J., collect your pay from Soros.
27 posted on 10/19/2017 1:12:24 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Jim 0216

Well, I want it both ways. I want them degraded first, then thrown out!


28 posted on 10/19/2017 1:14:41 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The abrupt downward trajectory started in 1993. 1989-1992 was a rough segue when the GOP suddenly decided to raise taxes after “Read My Lips” George the Ist raised taxes.

2001 brought us George the 2nd who raised the nose a bit, but then failed when he decided a mid east war was due instead of a mere extended punitive military expedition. I swear that man said we weren’t going to do any ‘Nation Building’ , but lo and behold here we are 16 years later, still spending money on the war that should have ended halfway through George the 2nd’s second term.

2009 brought us back into a vertical drop when the ‘anointed one’ violated his oath week after week, month after month without putting a stop to it.

2017 is shaping up better in some ways, but the GOP is imploding because of #nevertrump Republicans. At our current rate, GOP will lose house and senate in 2018 because they refused to support the President and fight back against the swamp along with Trump.

2021 is the end of the U.S as we know it today. We’ll only have 2 parties represented by the Liberal and the More Liberal.


29 posted on 10/19/2017 1:17:34 PM PDT by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: dfwgator

They are degrading themselves thanks to Trump.


30 posted on 10/19/2017 1:19:45 PM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can’t defame or degrade a politician.

(Nothing you might say fully expresses the true horror of their existence)


31 posted on 10/19/2017 1:21:32 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who even reads the drivel this miserable fudgepacker spews anymore?

Diane is so ‘80’s.


32 posted on 10/19/2017 1:25:02 PM PDT by L,TOWM (I don't have a preference for politician or a party. I have God and His standards.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL! Most of them are already lower than pedophiles! How could they go any lower?!


33 posted on 10/19/2017 1:50:36 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Missing the barf alert.


34 posted on 10/19/2017 2:29:48 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I guess Dione thinks that a certain Democrat POTUS sticking a cigar up an Intern’s vagina in the Oval Office was not very degrading.
35 posted on 10/19/2017 2:32:33 PM PDT by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The mere presence of a guy who tells the truth has “ thrown our government into tumalt”, eh EJ? So what do you think that says about our gov’t aND the ACTUAL source of the problem, Mr. Dionne?


36 posted on 10/19/2017 2:35:12 PM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: dfwgator

You misspelled hanged


37 posted on 10/19/2017 2:58:14 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The "news" media is unhinged !dexymd8i2w3z

38 posted on 10/19/2017 3:07:27 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL. According to this schmuck the level of discourse is coarsened when the right fights back!

Elected officials on the right have, for the most part, refrained from the type of vicious attacks that the left has engaged in. Politicians on the` left routinely has attacked the right with charges of being heartless, racist and greedy and those on the right did not respond. Trump does not hesitate to stand for what he believes in and to get his hands dirty when he is falsely attacked.

I’ve been waiting for this since Reagan left the public eye. When the left calls a GOP officeholder racist for promoting a policy I agree with (for example cutting taxes), they are calling me racist for agreeing with that officeholder. When the GOP pols fail to defend themselves forcefully it is as if they are agreeing with the left as to their (and my) motives for supporting the so-called racist policy.

So I endorse completely the Trump counter-attack. If the left wants to engage in civil discourse rather that name-calling, perhaps they should stop the name-calling.


39 posted on 10/19/2017 3:58:16 PM PDT by tommythev (No Dick Dale in the R&R HOF? for shame!)
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