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Like Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Never Had A Chance
Townhall.com ^ | January 14, 2020 | Sheriff David Clarke, Ret

Posted on 01/14/2020 4:03:37 AM PST by Kaslin

The recent announcement that Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) suspended his campaign for President of the United States should come as no surprise even to his supporters. Booker, like Sen. Kamala Harris, never had a chance. They would tell you it was because of racism and sexism in the case of Harris. I beg to differ.

On a side note, I love the word choice candidates use when they are quitting their quest for the White House. The word “suspended” is a temporary state. If a student is suspended from school, it means that at some point, the school will allow the student to return. So when Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro, and everybody else announced that they were “suspending their campaign,” does that mean they will later resume? This is straight-up word-smithing. In fact, it’s over.

There are several reasons why Booker never gained traction on the campaign. First, Booker isn’t real. Everything he does is with a flair for the dramatic. Recall his acting during the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearing. He actually referred to himself as Spartacus! Come on, Cory. Get real. Black voters saw right through that charade. Spartacus was a 1960 movie about a Greek slave. Has Booker never heard of Nat Turner or Frederick Douglass?

Booker’s campaign was doomed from the start because he is a flawed candidate who was hoping to resonate with black voters. He competed with fellow Jamaican/Indian Senator Kamala Harris for that demographic. However, they both fell flat on their faces. Think about this. They let Joe Biden walk into the race and push them aside immediately polling with huge support in places like black voter rich South Carolina, basically the third Democratic primary.

There is a simple explanation about why this happened. As I said, Booker is a fraud, and so is Harris. They both come from middle to upper-middle class beginnings. Nothing wrong with that. They should have embraced it. Instead, they ran from it. They were both Ivy League-educated. They did not share the experiences of blacks in urban ghettos. Neither did Barack Obama, but he had charisma. Obama could break into a black dialect speaking cadence in front of a black audience or from the pulpit in a black church. He was a master manipulator. Obama also had one thing in his favor that neither Booker nor Harris had. Obama was breaking a barrier to become the first African American president in U.S. history. Black voters saw the mountaintop and saw Obama as their best hope to finally get there. Remember Obama’s campaign theme? Hope and Change and more powerfully, Yes we can! It resonated in black America. After Obama won in 2008, that first black president theme had been achieved. That excitement is over. Booker and Harris never came up with a reason for black voters to get excited about the prospect of the second black president.

In addition to not being real, Booker and Harris are not authentic in who they are and neither resonated in the hood. Don’t misunderstand me. I am not saying they are not authentically black. But, both of them continually tried to over-emphasize how down with the struggle they were. Black people aren’t stupid. When you over-do something, they’ll see right through it, and therefore black voters ultimately didn’t trust them. Booker and Harris were "faking the funk" as they say in the hood. They never convinced black voters about who they were and what they would do for them and therefore, forfeited this stronghold of their base to Biden. If either was going to compete in the Democrat primary, they needed full black support. It never materialized. A photo-op with Al Sharpton was doing it this time.

How embarrassing that they allowed Joe Biden, who as a U.S. senator opposed busing to achieve school desegregation and proudly said that he got along with segregation supporting members of Congress. He never really did anything substantial for black people in all these years but they trusted him for some reason. In 2007 he called candidate Obama clean, articulate and good looking. I guess that was enough.

Moreover, neither Booker nor Harris created a lasting vision for blacks or Democratic voters in general. All of their campaign products like bumper stickers and tee shirts simply said Cory or Kamala—both not household names in the black community. Let’s call it as it is: they expected black voters to automatically support them because they are black. That might work for more established black politicians, ones that have been around the block and share experiences of blacks living life at the bottom because at least they connect emotionally with them and understand their plight. Obama was great at selling that emotion even though he didn’t mean it.

Instead of a Spartacus moment, Booker needed a Donald Trump moment. In his first quest for political office, Trump already had name recognition. Trump added a vision to that, something people could see in their minds—Make America Great Again was his vision. He put that slogan on baseball caps, tee shirts, bumper stickers, and yard signs. Democrats spent so much time attacking that phrase that they lost focus while it became a rallying cry for the forgotten Americans left behind by Democrats like Booker and Harris, who didn’t understand what they were doing from the jump and wasted lots of money promoting themselves while the voters yawned.

So back to the Senate you go, Cory and Kamala. You don’t belong there either, but you sure as hell don’t deserve to be the leader of the free world. Get real. Get authentic. Get lost.


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1 posted on 01/14/2020 4:03:37 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Harris is just unlikable. She’s difficult to listen to. He voice quakes, she puts on the head-bob black woman thing, which comes off as inauthentic, and she has Hillary-levels of smugness.

Booker is weird. He throws off a strong gay vibe, is hyper like Beto, and always seems to be bitching about something. The Democrats don’t have another Obama at the moment. Thank God.


2 posted on 01/14/2020 4:13:28 AM PST by cdcdawg (Cornpop was a bad dude!)
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To: Kaslin

Booker got out because Bernie told him a woman couldn’t be elected.


3 posted on 01/14/2020 4:14:16 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: Kaslin
"On a side note, I love the word choice candidates use when they are quitting their quest for the White House. The word “suspended” is a temporary state. If a student is suspended from school, it means that at some point, the school will allow the student to return. So when Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro, and everybody else announced that they were “suspending their campaign,” does that mean they will later resume? This is straight-up word-smithing. In fact, it’s over."

IIRC, suspending a campaign is a technicality under FEC rules. A suspended campaign can continue to raise funds, ostensibly to pay debts incurred.

4 posted on 01/14/2020 4:17:36 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Yes. Most of us here know about this technicality but this idiot Sheriff who has ostensibly spent a lifetime in politics is unaware of this well known fact and parades his abject ignorance before all.


5 posted on 01/14/2020 4:23:00 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Kaslin

ALL of the DIMocRAT candidates have ONE thing in common: NONE of them have even a prayer of defeating DJT.

Yours, TMN78247


6 posted on 01/14/2020 4:24:39 AM PST by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: Kaslin

Too any words, froth

Booker is gone because one was way too many


7 posted on 01/14/2020 4:28:00 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Kaslin

Just in it for free ride on fools dime.


8 posted on 01/14/2020 4:29:01 AM PST by maddogtiger
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To: nwrep
I don't know. Sheriff Clarke offered some pretty reasonable advice previously...

"Sheriff David Clarke's radio ad says 911 not best option, urges residents to take firearms classes"

9 posted on 01/14/2020 4:40:17 AM PST by moovova
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“Like Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Never Had A Chance”

Well shucks, WE all knew that.

It was just fun to watch and wonder when the inevitable end would occur.


10 posted on 01/14/2020 4:46:34 AM PST by simpson96
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To: Kaslin

None of these commie freaks have a chance.


11 posted on 01/14/2020 4:49:14 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

So Kamala infering she could not compete because democrats are racist?


12 posted on 01/14/2020 4:55:17 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Kaslin

Two black candidates who like men are now out.


13 posted on 01/14/2020 4:57:10 AM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: Joe 6-pack

McCain was the first to use the term that I can recall.


14 posted on 01/14/2020 4:59:23 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Kaslin
Harris’s fall was never related in any way to race.

Rather, race was insufficient to overcome having entered politics as a reward for whoredom whilst flaunting her john in front of the man's wife.

Ruining thousands of rape evidence kits by diverting the money allocated to processing them and storing them improperly as San Francisco AG should have finished her off...but then keeping minor addicts locked up while she herself was smoking pot added to the dumpster fire that was her career in politics burning.

15 posted on 01/14/2020 5:20:30 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Kaslin
Like Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Never Had A Chance

Anyone with half a brain (which exceeds what Biden has left) could see that SpartacASS is just another big government, crooked lib phony.

16 posted on 01/14/2020 6:47:36 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Takedown My Duly Elected President and You're Attacking The Constitution! IT WILL BE DEFENDED!)
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To: Kaslin

Project Veritas on Bernie

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1217083949693968385

BREAKING: @BernieSanders “free education” policies to “teach you how to not be a f**king nazi.”; ‘There is a reason Stalin had Gulags’; ‘Expect violent reaction’ for speech. If Bernie doesn’t get nomination “Milwaukee will burn”

Stay tuned: http://Expose2020.com

#Expose2020


17 posted on 01/14/2020 7:09:25 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

18 posted on 01/14/2020 8:43:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin
Spartacus wasn't Greek. He was a Thracian, a member of an Indo-European-speaking "barbarian" ethnic group living in southeast Europe (mainly in what is now Bulgaria).

The Athenian general Cimon (son of Miltiades, the victor at Marathon) was of Thracian descent on his mother's side. Some think the historian Thucydides was too, but the evidence for that is less secure.

19 posted on 01/14/2020 9:46:55 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin
The biggest problem is black women - the base of the democrat party stand with the old white liberal elites - backing Joe Biden.

Biden's the kind of white liberal elite who supports black women being married to the State - - either in make work government jobs, welfare, or other dependency creating 'perks'.

It's one of the reasons black men - fighting for the rights of black families to exist with a Mom AND a Dad - support Republicans.

20 posted on 01/14/2020 10:12:37 AM PST by GOPJ (Glacier National Park removed signs warning glaciers will be gone by 2020 (ten year old sign))
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