Posted on 12/02/2019 7:48:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“This is why democrats win elections.”
I see this as a huge vote of no confidence by the titular head of the Democrat party, Barack Obama.
Could there ever be a weaker endorsement of potential nominees than what Obama just said? Talk about damning by soft praise! He just admitted that Democrats will have to hold their noses in order to vote Democrat!
What is really going on here is that Barack Obama thinks the Democrats are headed for major defeat and he is distancing himself from it. He will delay as long as possible before campaigning for the eventual nominee - and I bet even then, his support will be lukewarm.
He expects the Democrats to suffer a crippling defeat in 2020 and all he cares about is not having his own name, or the Democrat brand, tarnished by it. It is smart politics if you think about it. Better to blame a huge defeat on lousy candidates than to blame it on the party itself.
This is exactly why President Trump has begun calling out Obama by name in his rallies. Notice how he is saying “I beat the Bush dynasty, I beat the Clinton dynasty, and I beat the Obama dynasty.”
But he never ran against an Obama - so why does he say that? Because he wants to draw Obama into the 2020 fight. When he grinds the Democrat party into a huge steaming pile of festering roadkill next year, he wants that pile to include the Obamas.
The PJDT doesn’t drink beer.
Commie-crats win by vote harvesting. Illegal, dead, multivoter, box-stuffing, etc. Yes, blind party loyalty contributes; but their rabid opposition to voter ID reveals the “strength” of their “base.”
“For heaven’s sake, JUST STAY ON THE PLANTATION!”
True!!
If McCain, Romney or Yeb! had gotten elected, they would have gotten passed the final amnesty needed to complete the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).
Flimsey Grahamnesty and Micro Rubio are STILL working on it.
If they ever get that amnesty the Republic is finished.
Works for me. I voted Republican IN SPITE of (1) McCain and (2) Romney.
I wouldn’t want to have a beer with Trump
George Washington on the Baneful Effects of Political Parties
“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party...”
Excerpts from George Washington’s Farewell Address
September 19, 1796
“... One of the expedients of Party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions & aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies & heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal Affection.
...
“All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and Associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are distructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to Organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public Administration the Mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the Organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modefied by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.“... in a country so extensive as ours, a Government of as much vigour as is consistent with the perfect security of Liberty is indispensable — Liberty itself will find in such a Government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest Guardian. It is indeed little else than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction ...
“I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.
“This Spirit, unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
“Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.
“It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded Jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot & insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence & corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another.
“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the Administration of the Government and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true--and in Governments of a Monarchical cast Patriotism may look with endulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate & assuage it. A fire not to be quenched; it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming it should consume."
Yes, I know Illinois is a hopeless case...unless Cook County is cut off and made a separate state, or unless Biden is the nominee and Bernie mounts a viable third-party campaign against him (very unlikely even if Biden is the nominee, which itself is not likely).
Oh yes, but the other side are the unthinking ones right?
Words fail...
Dear Mr. Ex-President: No.
He’s father worked his way up
To millionaire but he’s not from billionaire stock.
Democrats are the party of death!
POTUS is a “Bluecollar Billionaire!”
He knows what we Middle Americans are about, and by promoting America First and Make America Great Again, he is well within our lane! IOW, POTUS speaks our language!
He is a Hellofalot more “real guy” and “average Joe” than any other prominent politician in Washington, DC! That is why we elected him - despite being a billionaire, he is one of us!
There are NO LIEberal Democrats like him, fer shure, fer shure! And that is why he’ll be resoundingly re-elected next November!
[My rant is by no means a criticism of your post - I ranted because I wanted to expand on your thoughts.]
The era of “party first” is OVER!
POTUS’ “America First” policy will prevail, hopefully for a long, long time!
And through many Republican administrations!
If Biden wins he could pick Hillary for VP, then he’d be declared unbalanced and she’d take the reins!!
Biden doesn’t worry a bit about any trials ahead for his corruption as he’d be declared mentally unfit....ad Hillary then would continue to be protectd as President.
Pelosi then could happily retire.
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