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An election lesson not learned
Washington Times ^ | October 30, 2018 | Anthony Scaramucci

Posted on 10/31/2018 5:06:58 PM PDT by TBP

On Sept. 10, 2016, at a fund raiser in New York, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton infamously called half of Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables.”

I’m sure you remember the moment. In a very real sense, Hillary lost the election that day.

The Trump campaign seized the opportunity. Mr. Trump had been behind in the polls but had started to make up ground. He needed an opening to pull even and eventually overcome the poll numbers. Hillary handed it to him on a platter. Donald Trump then hijacked the Democratic base.

Many of those deplorables, as Hillary called them, were actually hard-working “blue collar” voters who had been forgotten by the elites of the Democratic Party. Hillary was so wrong about them because her party had stopped

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And they learned nothing from that, as Mooch shows.
1 posted on 10/31/2018 5:06:58 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

I don’t believe President Trump was ever behind. Regardless, Hillary is not only our enemy but her own worst enemy also.


2 posted on 10/31/2018 5:09:41 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: TBP

There was a whole bunch of RINOs that screwed this up, too. If you’re looking to attract a bunch of voters away from another candidate, calling them a bunch of idiots is not the way to do it. Morons!


3 posted on 10/31/2018 5:12:31 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon
Republicans nominate Hillary to run against them in 2020.
4 posted on 10/31/2018 5:12:34 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: TBP

Dems despise the working class people of the country.


5 posted on 10/31/2018 5:14:03 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the DemocRats are all cats.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
One of the best pro-Hillary, or anti-trump, rather, arguments I came across was published by Slate Star Codex.

Unfortunately, there are hardly any Democrats with enough intellectual capacity to digest something like that, even if they read it-which I doubt they did.

6 posted on 10/31/2018 5:14:21 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

LOL, that was great!


7 posted on 10/31/2018 5:15:22 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: TBP

Thanks to Dick Bachert for this reality hat meme!

8 posted on 10/31/2018 5:15:33 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hillary has a better chance of winning in 2020 than 1 of those “bombs” going off! ~ Normsrevenge)
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon
I love the Bee!
9 posted on 10/31/2018 5:18:08 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

I go there on occasion, but I think I have to step it up a bit as I am missing some very funny things. LOL, thanks for the reminder. :-)


10 posted on 10/31/2018 5:20:42 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon
It's great, especially the articles about calvinism.
11 posted on 10/31/2018 5:23:54 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Yep, they just want to scream and accuse Trump of doing things that Bill actually did. When your husband is a serial sexual assaulter and you were always running interference for it, constantly bringing up sexual assault is not a winning formula.


12 posted on 10/31/2018 5:25:14 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: OddLane

LOL, brilliant. :>)


13 posted on 10/31/2018 5:26:16 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
You are so right. But this deplorables comment was not a throwaway line. It was a calculated and planned line. She used it at least twice.

Here is the famous one.
Here is the other time

Her camp actually thought about this, they scripted it, and they rolled it out as a strategy.

14 posted on 10/31/2018 5:35:44 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Hillary Clinton infamously called half of Donald Trump’s supporters a "basket of deplorables." ... In a very real sense, Hillary lost the election that day. The Trump campaign seized the opportunity. Mr. Trump had been behind in the polls but had started to make up ground.
Fake history grows out of fake news and fake polls. That was one of the idiotic statements the drunken, drug-soaked, libellous, racist old hag made during her long public career (and hs she still hasn't stopped making 'em), and it tipped more of the undecideds into the R column, but she never had any big lead, and as you probably remember, on election night, the Partisan Media Shills (like the one who spewed out the article linked above) wouldn't call the outcome and wouldn't announce the results in Pennsylvania, which in no way was expected to go. Probably PA had something to do with Hitlery's boasting and bragging about destroying the coal industry.

15 posted on 10/31/2018 6:03:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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Thanks RightGeek:

Clinton: Being a Capitalist Probably Hurt Me in 2016 Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists | freebeacon | Posted on 05/02/2018 2:55:43 PM PDT by Sub-Driver | 29 posted on 05/02/2018 3:15:30 PM PDT by RightGeek
Thanks Iron Munro:

Clinton: Being a Capitalist Probably Hurt Me in 2016 Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists | freebeacon | Posted on 05/02/2018 2:55:43 PM PDT by Sub-Driver | 58 posted on 05/02/2018 4:18:34 PM PDT by Iron Munro
Uranium One FBI Informant Is Revealed: Will Testify, Provide Evidence
Thanks Albion Wilde:

Hillary Clinton on Election Night: They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President | Daily Beast | April 20 | Gideon Resnick | Posted on 04/20/2018 7:34:08 AM PDT by Dahoser | 128 posted on 04/20/2018 7:36:00 PM PDT by Albion Wilde

16 posted on 10/31/2018 6:05:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

This was the night I knew Trump would win
Deplorables rally

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtWNjLf3aHE


17 posted on 10/31/2018 6:23:08 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: silverleaf
 
 
Comment from your link -
 
Turning this pathetic comment by Hillary back in her face with this imagery and music is one of the most brilliant campaign actions in election history.
 
The rules of engagement have changed under Trump. Anyone who wants to take him on has to think things through a bit, not do or blurt out stuff he can pick up, use as a bludgeon and make them have to own it.
 
 

18 posted on 10/31/2018 6:57:22 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: TBP

Many of those deplorables, as Hillary called them, were actually hard-working “blue collar” voters who had been forgotten by the elites of the Democratic Party.

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Still holds true today. The Dems have been hijacked by the SJWs. They’ve long ago forgotten their blue collar base.


19 posted on 10/31/2018 7:16:03 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: OddLane

The Babylon Bee has some very talented writers.


20 posted on 10/31/2018 7:17:43 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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