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Tulsi Gabbard is positioning herself to pick up the pieces after the Dems implode in the 2020 election
American Thinker ^ | 12/29/2019 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 12/29/2019 10:21:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Even though she continues campaigning for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination, it is now clear to me that Tulsi Gabbard’s real goal has nothing to do with wining the donkeys’ nod this election cycle. Her vote of “present” on the House’s articles of impeachment ensures that she has no chance this time around, and now, in an interview with ABC News (video not yet available), she goes even further and tips her hand.

Gabbard campaigning in New Hampshire yesterday, YouTube screen grab

The Hill reports:

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hi.), a 2020 presidential candidate, elaborated on her rationale for voting “present” on articles of impeachment against President Trumptelling ABC News impeachment proceedings will only “embolden” the president.

"I think impeachment, unfortunately, will only further embolden Donald Trump, increase his support and the likelihood that he'll have a better shot at getting elected while also seeing the likelihood that the House will lose a lot of seats to Republicans," Gabbard told ABC in New Hampshire Saturday.

Gabbard, who has announced she will not seek re-election to her House seat, said she was concerned Trump’s all-but-inevitable acquittal in the Republican Senate could ensure “lasting damage” in the event that Trump is re-elected and the GOP regains control of the House.

With Hawaii among the most heavily Democrat states, she might well have a hard time returning to the House anyway. And even if she were to return as a representative, she would no doubt face hostility from Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat colleagues, and likely would be punished. Nancy Pelosi, who prays all the time for Trump, also warns, “Don’t mess with me.”


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 2020; cuckservative; cuckservatives; democrats; freeperqueen; hawaii; sheisaloser; thehill; thehillary; theshill; tulsigabbard
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1 posted on 12/29/2019 10:21:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

And yet she’s still a democrat, even though she knows what they’ve become, and still associates with them.

And didn’t even have the courage to vote “No” on the impeachment farce. She voted “present”. Real JFK-style “Profile In Courage” there, that one.

The hell with her.


2 posted on 12/29/2019 10:25:50 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SeekAndFind

In before the puns about Tulsi ‘positioning herself’...


3 posted on 12/29/2019 10:26:29 AM PST by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Keep on keepin’ on, Tulsi!


4 posted on 12/29/2019 10:26:35 AM PST by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe in 2032. We still have a 2nd or 3rd Trump term, plus 2 terms for Pompeo.


5 posted on 12/29/2019 10:29:00 AM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Absolutly.


6 posted on 12/29/2019 10:30:55 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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Yeah I agree that she is looking farther down the road...but she should have had enough confidence to vote ‘no’ on this farce of an impeachment...


7 posted on 12/29/2019 10:31:11 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: SeekAndFind

If Trump wins in 2020, Tulsi can legit say “see I told you so, we need to be more moderate” and try a Clintonesque triangulation against the weaker, non-Trump GOPer in 2024.


8 posted on 12/29/2019 10:31:26 AM PST by montag813
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We’ve already seen what happens when “present” voters become POTUS. No thanks.


9 posted on 12/29/2019 10:32:42 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She has no chance in the future so long as the “progressives” are running the Democrat Clown Show. But she’s still easy on the eyes.


10 posted on 12/29/2019 10:32:51 AM PST by Artemis Webb (There are only two genders.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“she might well have a hard time returning to the House anyway”

Has she rsaid anything about running to get re-elected to her House seat in 2020?


11 posted on 12/29/2019 10:33:00 AM PST by be-baw
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, good luck with that one !


12 posted on 12/29/2019 10:34:04 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: montag813

That is exactly how I read it.
Trump needs to start grooming his replacement and avoid Reagan’s mistake


13 posted on 12/29/2019 10:42:40 AM PST by Zathras
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To: samadams2000

Maybe in 2032. We still have a 2nd or 3rd Trump term, plus 2 terms for Pompeo.
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Barron Trump will be our candidate in 2044.


14 posted on 12/29/2019 10:43:51 AM PST by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: NFHale

What you say is so true. She also in not an Article II Natural Born Citizen. No matter how many naysayers opine that this is but a mere “technicality” that no one cares about, I and many others will not be among them.


15 posted on 12/29/2019 10:51:33 AM PST by DMZFrank
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To: real saxophonist

How about the puns about the Gabardine suit? Her bow tie is really a camera.


16 posted on 12/29/2019 10:52:37 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: SeekAndFind
Let's see ... in 2024 she will be out of any gov't position for 4 years, no help from the DNC or GOP. Who will she "connect" with?

Straight to the masses, "ultimate outsider", Trump-style populism?

Possible, but unlikely. Her only hope might be appointment to some position in the Trump organization.

Highly unlikely.

17 posted on 12/29/2019 10:53:17 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: DMZFrank

“...a mere “technicality” that no one cares about,...”

I care about it.

For sure.


18 posted on 12/29/2019 10:53:39 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I haven’t read the comments yet, but sooner or later the FR love fest for this commie rat will show up as her being hot or she should join the Repub party or whatever.

She is not a Truman, she is not a JFK. She’s a rabid socialist that would be far worse than Carter, maybe even obama.


19 posted on 12/29/2019 10:55:50 AM PST by redfreedom
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To: redfreedom
But she's hot...

I'll position her...

She can pick up my pieces...

LOL

20 posted on 12/29/2019 11:01:48 AM PST by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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