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Hickenlooper booed in San Francisco for denouncing socialism
The Hill ^ | 06/01/19 | Reid Wilson

Posted on 06/01/2019 6:21:22 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Democratic activists booed former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) on Saturday after he warned party faithful about the perils of embracing socialism and socialist positions ahead of next year's presidential race.

Hickenlooper, a former governor of a purple state Hillary Clinton won by just 4.9 percent of the vote in 2016, said Republicans would use the Democratic flirtation with socialism to paint the entire party as outside the mainstream of the political spectrum.

"If we want to beat Donald Trump and achieve big progressive goals, socialism is not the answer," Hickenlooper told delegates to the California Democratic Party convention.

Some delegates, meeting in perhaps the most liberal city in America, booed.

Hickenlooper, polling near the bottom of the 24-candidate Democratic field, anticipated the reaction. He amassed a centrist record as governor, working with a Republican-controlled legislature for most of his two terms in office, though he scored progressive wins in his final two years on the job after Democrats reclaimed control of the state House and Senate.

He said allowing Republicans to define the Democratic brand would hurt the party's chances of winning the White House in 2020.

"If we don't draw a clear distinction between Democrats and our candidates and socialism, the Republicans will paint us into a corner that we can't get out of," Hickenlooper told The Hill in an interview shortly after his speech. "Massive government expansions may not be strictly speaking socialism, but trust me Republicans will make it seem like socialism. In places like Ohio and Michigan and North Carolina and Wisconsin, places we have to win to beat Trump, we'll be starting out ten yards behind."

"We need to be laser-focused on winning this election, and that's going to mean focusing on kitchen table programs that will actually improve people's quality of life," he said.

If he is included in the first Democratic presidential debate later this month in Miami, Hickenlooper is likely to portray himself as a pragmatic contrast to candidates who have positioned themselves much farther to the left.

Hickenlooper has met one of the Democratic National Committee's two thresholds for being included in the debate after receiving at least one percent support in three public surveys.

He has not yet collected the 65,000 donors necessary to meet the second threshold. If more than 20 candidates qualify for the debates, those who have not met both thresholds risk missing out on the debate stage.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Michigan; US: North Carolina; US: Ohio; US: Wisconsin
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To: yesthatjallen

Socialism -—> Venezuela 2.0

Right after they come for the gunz.


21 posted on 06/01/2019 6:55:19 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: yesthatjallen
😂. These assclowns are really deluded.
22 posted on 06/01/2019 6:55:39 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just #WalkAway, Governor Hickenlooper. They are not about to hear common sense; you already know that in your heart.


23 posted on 06/01/2019 6:59:07 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: yesthatjallen

Btw, this is the same guy who took his mom to see Deep Throat.

https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2019/03/john-hickenlooper-his-dumb-moment

ewwww.


24 posted on 06/01/2019 7:00:44 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Lizavetta

I don’t think he’s running as a Socialist....errr...Democrat


25 posted on 06/01/2019 7:04:50 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: yesthatjallen

The truth shall set you to flee! Lol


26 posted on 06/01/2019 7:11:09 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: yesthatjallen

Meanwhile, down in Venezuela, they’re booing socialism.


27 posted on 06/01/2019 7:27:49 PM PDT by AlaskaErik
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To: yesthatjallen

The Russian author, Vladimir Voinovich, in his satiric novel “Moscow 2042” wrote that true communism would be achieved when primary matter (food) equalled secondary matter (feces). San Francisco with its streets now covered in feces is well on its way to achieving true communism.


28 posted on 06/01/2019 7:28:29 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatche)
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To: yesthatjallen

Same liberals voted for Nancy Pelosi, a White Rich Capitalist. These people are not informed


29 posted on 06/01/2019 7:34:07 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: yesthatjallen

Sheeple wanting to be driven across the minefield of socialism don’t comprehend the consequences of the path they walk.


30 posted on 06/01/2019 7:39:52 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: kaehurowing

The DNC is exactly the people that the anticommunists of old were struggling to prevent.

And exactly the people the Cultural Marxist of old wanted to create.


31 posted on 06/01/2019 7:41:28 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: yesthatjallen
socialists are just lazy communists without guns...
32 posted on 06/01/2019 8:01:31 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Billthedrill

Your observation of socialism is about the most prescient critique of a murderous and failed political ideology I’ve ever seen


33 posted on 06/01/2019 8:17:03 PM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: yesthatjallen

It’s a tough run for them given that Harris has already met with the delegates in public restrooms on their convenience.


34 posted on 06/01/2019 8:21:40 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: dynachrome; MileHi; Balata; backspace; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; bravo whiskey; Carley; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


35 posted on 06/01/2019 8:30:58 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hickenlooper is trying to be the most reasonable of the candidates, but they aren’t buying it...The Dems love FREE STUFF...


36 posted on 06/01/2019 8:48:22 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: george76

I’ve said all along that Hickenlooper would be one of the strongest candidates because he’s not one of their insane clown posse - which is why he will not get the nomination.


37 posted on 06/01/2019 8:56:03 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: kaehurowing

“Democrats are not Americans”.

No, they’re not. Anyone still voting Democrat and supporting them is the lowest scum.


38 posted on 06/01/2019 9:03:43 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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This is going to be an intersting election cycle.
39 posted on 06/01/2019 9:04:16 PM PDT by Rio
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe those San Fransickos weren't really booing there, but were just letting the authorities there know what they were all smelling at the time of the speech...


       "Pooooooooooooooooooooop!"

40 posted on 06/01/2019 9:11:39 PM PDT by Songcraft
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