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Bloomberg may pick Hillary Clinton as running mate
I just heard this on Fox News. This is actually pretty interesting. A lot of pros, but also cons to this selection.
Pros: Hillary has name recognition, a lot of people like her, former first lady, she won't be able to jump right in as an independent candidate for president if Bloomberg does with the dem nomination taking votes from him.
Cons: A lot of people don't like her, another career politician, she's already had her moment in the sun. Bloomberg, like Trump, is a "alpha male", and needs someone on his ticket that isn't "alpha" like him, even if it's a "alpha" woman like Hillary Clinton.
If Bloomberg does pick her, he's considering moving his residency to Colorado since both a presidential and vice presidential candidate cannot reside from the same state.
Any thoughts, feel free to post.
Pros: Hillary has name recognition, a lot of people like her, former first lady, she won't be able to jump right in as an independent candidate for president if Bloomberg does with the dem nomination taking votes from him.
Cons: A lot of people don't like her, another career politician, she's already had her moment in the sun. Bloomberg, like Trump, is a "alpha male", and needs someone on his ticket that isn't "alpha" like him, even if it's a "alpha" woman like Hillary Clinton.
If Bloomberg does pick her, he's considering moving his residency to Colorado since both a presidential and vice presidential candidate cannot reside from the same state.
Any thoughts, feel free to post.
online today!
OK, struggling here not to chase all the ladies away from CS....
...by too much politics. But they leave me no choice. You know how I rant about how the snowflake alt liberals like to throw around the R word, and words ending in -phobia. Why, oh why, are they forcing my hand at CNN (Clinton news network)? Our Dazzling and Brilliant President Trump assembles a top notch commission on an American public health response to the Wuhan Corona virus proto pandemic. CNN's main comments? Not on the appropriateness of the presidential response. Or the quality of the staff. No, no no, my fellow lemmings on the bus. The main concern was, that the commission was all white, or at least not minority affirmative action enough for the editors and news wonks at CNN. Pathetic, but sort of glad they have sunk so low. Four more years. Then eight of Pence. Can't make this stuff up folks.
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It's Amy baby!!
I've long felt Amy Klobuchar is the sleeper candidate(i put a few € on her last week) for the Dems. She's a moderate, (fairly) sensible policy proposals compared to other candidates, and is more positive when it comes to messaging.
Could she win the nomination?
Could she win the nomination?
online today!
Haters have spent all their ammo and now the tide has turned
- Trump was acquitted of the manufactured and ridiculous charges of House Democrats and their lackeys at State Department
- Trump won again on the Emoluments case
- Jussie Smollett - the hoaxster who nearly incited riots - has been indicted by a grand jury on six counts of disorderly conduct
- 4 Federal prosecutors have now withdrawn from the Roger Stone Case after they were slapped down by Bill Barr for their ridiculous sentence recommendation for Stone
Next we should have indictments for those guilty of conspiring to take down Trump with the Russia coup (and possibly for the Ukraine coup too) as well as a serious investigation into dealings in Ukraine of the previous administration.
- Trump won again on the Emoluments case
- Jussie Smollett - the hoaxster who nearly incited riots - has been indicted by a grand jury on six counts of disorderly conduct
- 4 Federal prosecutors have now withdrawn from the Roger Stone Case after they were slapped down by Bill Barr for their ridiculous sentence recommendation for Stone
Next we should have indictments for those guilty of conspiring to take down Trump with the Russia coup (and possibly for the Ukraine coup too) as well as a serious investigation into dealings in Ukraine of the previous administration.
online today!
Democrats leaving the Plantation
State Senator John Yudichak of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania said that he will be switching his registration to become an Independent. He will caucus with the Republican majority.
Yudichak has criticized an increasingly liberal Democratic caucus that has led to this decision.
Due to issues that he finds important, Yudichak believes there is a better home in the Republican caucus.
Yudichak’s announcement comes less than 24 hours since we learned that New Jersey Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew has also made a decision that speaks volumes.
Van Drew has strongly opposed the Democrats’ impeachment efforts. After meeting with President Trump, Van Drew is now leaving the Democratic Party and becoming a member of the Republican Party.
More people Waking Up and Walking Away
Yudichak has criticized an increasingly liberal Democratic caucus that has led to this decision.
Due to issues that he finds important, Yudichak believes there is a better home in the Republican caucus.
Yudichak’s announcement comes less than 24 hours since we learned that New Jersey Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew has also made a decision that speaks volumes.
Van Drew has strongly opposed the Democrats’ impeachment efforts. After meeting with President Trump, Van Drew is now leaving the Democratic Party and becoming a member of the Republican Party.
More people Waking Up and Walking Away
Deathwish 2020
Who in their right mind would ever ask Hillary to be their Vice President?
Well the subject was proposed by one of the anchors from one of the left wing networks. The question being....Would you accept? And the answer was somewhere in the neighborhood of....'Well, you never know?"
How long do you think that newly elected President would last? And who would tempt the fates to see if all those dead anti-hrc confederates are in fact dead for a fact? During the interview you could almost see the gleam in her eye...
Well the subject was proposed by one of the anchors from one of the left wing networks. The question being....Would you accept? And the answer was somewhere in the neighborhood of....'Well, you never know?"
How long do you think that newly elected President would last? And who would tempt the fates to see if all those dead anti-hrc confederates are in fact dead for a fact? During the interview you could almost see the gleam in her eye...
Max Boot & why the GOP does not deserve to survive the impeachment debacle.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Today in the Washington Post;
(continued in my first comment below)
In response to:
Max A. Boot is an American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.
He worked as a writer and editor for Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s.
He is now the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has also authored books of military history.
In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, and The Corrosion of Conservatism:
Why I Left the Right, which details Boot's "ideological journey from a 'movement' conservative to a man without a party" in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election.
Max A. Boot is an American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.
He worked as a writer and editor for Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s.
He is now the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has also authored books of military history.
In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, and The Corrosion of Conservatism:
Why I Left the Right, which details Boot's "ideological journey from a 'movement' conservative to a man without a party" in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election.
Today in the Washington Post;
In response to:
The GOP doesn’t deserve to survive this debacle
By Max Boot Columnist
Feb. 1, 2020 at 12:58 p.m. EST
I was recently asked if I would ever rejoin the Republican Party after having registered as an independent the day after President Trump’s election in 2016. The answer is an emphatic no. Trump will leave office some day (I hope!), but he will leave behind a quasi-authoritarian party that is as corrupt as he is. The failure to call witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial revealed the GOP’s moral failure.
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that, in his forthcoming book, former national security adviser John Bolton writes that Trump told him in August he wanted to freeze military aid to Ukraine “until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens.” For one brief moment it appeared that this blockbuster revelation would shatter the Republican wall of complicity. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) even said on Tuesday that he didn’t have the votes to stop witnesses from testifying. By Friday, he had the votes; the motion to call witnesses failed, 51-49, with only two Republicans (Mitt Romney and Susan Collins) voting “aye.”
The most significant of the “nay” votes was Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), a 79-year-old political warhorse who is retiring this year. He admitted what the most purblind Trump partisans will not: that “it was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent.” The reason he did not need to hear any witnesses, Alexander explained, was because “there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven.” So far, so good. But then he pivoted to argue that for some reason Trump’s misconduct doesn’t meet the “high bar for an impeachable offense.” He concluded that the verdict on Trump should be left to “the presidential election” — you know, the election Trump just tried to fix.
Alexander’s statement raises more questions than it answers: If Trump’s attempt to blackmail Ukraine into helping him politically does not rise to the level of impeachable conduct, what does? Does Alexander subscribe to Alan Dershowitz’s doctrine of presidential infallibility? And, even if he doesn’t want to keep Trump off the ballot, why doesn’t he advocate Trump’s censure or political defeat? But instead of advocating any punishment for Trump’s “inappropriate” conduct, Alexander wants him rewarded by being reelected.
Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) at least made clear that he rejects the argument — raised by the president’s lawyers but rejected by almost all scholars — "that ‘Abuse of Power’ can never constitute grounds for removal unless a crime or a crime-like action is alleged.” He, too, seems to assume that Trump is guilty, although he doesn’t quite say so. But Rubio argued “against removal in the context of the bitter divisions and deep polarization our country currently faces.”
The GOP doesn’t deserve to survive this debacle
By Max Boot Columnist
Feb. 1, 2020 at 12:58 p.m. EST
I was recently asked if I would ever rejoin the Republican Party after having registered as an independent the day after President Trump’s election in 2016. The answer is an emphatic no. Trump will leave office some day (I hope!), but he will leave behind a quasi-authoritarian party that is as corrupt as he is. The failure to call witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial revealed the GOP’s moral failure.
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that, in his forthcoming book, former national security adviser John Bolton writes that Trump told him in August he wanted to freeze military aid to Ukraine “until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens.” For one brief moment it appeared that this blockbuster revelation would shatter the Republican wall of complicity. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) even said on Tuesday that he didn’t have the votes to stop witnesses from testifying. By Friday, he had the votes; the motion to call witnesses failed, 51-49, with only two Republicans (Mitt Romney and Susan Collins) voting “aye.”
The most significant of the “nay” votes was Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), a 79-year-old political warhorse who is retiring this year. He admitted what the most purblind Trump partisans will not: that “it was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent.” The reason he did not need to hear any witnesses, Alexander explained, was because “there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven.” So far, so good. But then he pivoted to argue that for some reason Trump’s misconduct doesn’t meet the “high bar for an impeachable offense.” He concluded that the verdict on Trump should be left to “the presidential election” — you know, the election Trump just tried to fix.
Alexander’s statement raises more questions than it answers: If Trump’s attempt to blackmail Ukraine into helping him politically does not rise to the level of impeachable conduct, what does? Does Alexander subscribe to Alan Dershowitz’s doctrine of presidential infallibility? And, even if he doesn’t want to keep Trump off the ballot, why doesn’t he advocate Trump’s censure or political defeat? But instead of advocating any punishment for Trump’s “inappropriate” conduct, Alexander wants him rewarded by being reelected.
Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) at least made clear that he rejects the argument — raised by the president’s lawyers but rejected by almost all scholars — "that ‘Abuse of Power’ can never constitute grounds for removal unless a crime or a crime-like action is alleged.” He, too, seems to assume that Trump is guilty, although he doesn’t quite say so. But Rubio argued “against removal in the context of the bitter divisions and deep polarization our country currently faces.”
(continued in my first comment below)
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