Posted on 05/30/2019 3:35:08 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
As impeachment noise reaches ever-louder crescendos among Democrats, with the real danger they will overplay their hand and end up investigating and subpoenaing themselves into defeat in 2020, there now emerges another threat: a little-noticed Democrat running for President who is reminding his party of the saner policies some of their most prominent leaders embraced not that long ago.
Democratic luminaries like Bobby Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John F. Kennedy, and Henry “Scoop” Jackson – all of whom in their time represented dark blue states.
Ami Horowitz, a noted documentary filmmaker, announced his candidacy this month and expressed sentiments with which all four of those giants of the party’s history would agree. “The Democratic Party has become the party of socialism, open borders, and late-term abortions,” he said. “They’ve become so radicalized over the past several years that I feel compelled to try to bring some sanity into the discussion.”
Horowitz got thousands of donations within days of announcing, but needs many times that to get a place on the stage for the first two rounds of debates.
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He’s still a democrat.
No sale.
Plenty of room for a third-party run on the Democrat sanity party.
This guy will last less than a week.
I think going back had him on about a week ago I heard a little bit of it. He sounds more like a conservative.
I don’t trust anyone with a D behind their name including friends and relatives.
Trivial nothingness
A vapor lock in the continuum
Don’t. If anyone can still hold that D beside their name at this point, they are scum.
My Cat-Lady neighbor announces today.
Looks like the field will be up to 37 by the weekend.
ESPECIALLY friends and relatives!
He’s really handsome.
The Scoop Jackson wing of the Democrats is extinct...Ella Grasso couldn’t win in today’s Democrat Party...
“The Scoop Jackson wing of the Democrats is extinct...”
Zell Miller called that 10 years ago.
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