Posted on 05/07/2018 10:34:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are trying to run on issues, but nobody can hear them.
Stormy Daniels has dominated the domestic political news environment over the past week, with high-profile media appearances by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Danielss attorney Michael Avenatti making headlines and leading the Sunday shows.
Among dedicated Trump haters, thats made Daniels and Avenatti stars. Jacob Weisberg at Slate hails the attorney as a brilliant egomaniac who could bring Trump down while TPMs Josh Marshall hails his ability to keep Trump off balance and force him into mistakes.
At the same time, the presidents approval rating seems to have gone up moderately during the storm. Stormy-related issues do appear to potentially put Michael Cohen in legal jeopardy, and hes potentially vulnerable to cooperating with Robert Mueller in a way that puts Trump himself in legal jeopardy, but all of that is, for now, purely hypothetical.
In concrete terms, the problem with the Daniels issue for Democrats is it doesnt really add anything to what everyone already thinks about Trump. People who stuck with a thrice-married birther who claimed Hillary Clinton literally founded ISIS through the grab em by the pussy controversy arent about to be suddenly scandalized by the news that he engaged in some legally questionable tactics to cover up an affair with a porn actress. Its wrong to say that the carnival aspects of the Trump Show dont do him any harm his approval ratings remain underwater despite healthy economic conditions but its hard for the circus to hurt him more at the margin given everything thats already happened....
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
I actually can speak to this, they had some Dem Strategist on the radio on Friday morning. They're running on:
More Immigration
Repealing the Tax Reform (higher taxes)
Expanding Obamacare.
I nearly drove off the road, I was laughing so hard. Good luck with that...
About the only way that this can hurt him is from getting too many high 5's from the guys in the locker room.
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress”
US Constitution, Article II, Section I
NY state law alone controls with respect to Mr. Cohen.
“Office Statewide Family Limit
“Total number of registered voters in the state, excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by $0.025.”
http://www.elections.ny.gov/CFContributionLimits.html
~10 million NYS Presidential voters alone
http://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/elections/2016/General/2016President.pdf
At about 10 million voters, that $250,000.
$130,000 just isn’t sufficient to cause Mr. Cohen (or Mr. Trump) to have to worry.
Wait, isn’t this an old proverb,
“Lay down with pornstars, expect to get crabs” or something?
Maybe they should have Stormy campaign for their Congressmen this Fall. That will surely help them attract more women to the polls /s
Everything the Dems do backfires.
What message?
Massage vs. Socialism, no wonder they are losing votes
Nah, its just a tempest in a D-cup...
What’s the Democrat message for 2018 anyway?
Open borders
Hate Trump
Tax cuts are bad
Russia, Russia, Russia!
#MeToo
Global warming
Identity politics / racism
‘economic justice’
Hate Trump
More government
Ban guns / repeal the 2nd Amendment
Expand abortion
Gay ‘rights’
Blame America first
Kill Whitey - take his money
Honestly, that’s the best I can do. I don’t think Democrats stand for much else.
The Russians are coming so we want to take away your guns!
What message?
“I hate Trump...I hate Trump...I hate Trump....”
“Russia...Russia...Russia...”
“Collusion...Collusion...Collusion...”
“Stormy...Stormy...Stormy”
The RATS are a bunch of communists, socialists, freaks, nutjobs and Nazis.
Stormy Daniels, porn star and Democratic Party strategist . . .
All they’ve got is a made up Russia story and a made up affair with a low life story. The democrats have NOTHING.
Stormy Daniels IS their message.
Stormy is the Democrats message.
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