@livinglava,
I think you have a vivid imagination.
@coldjoint,
No. Trump fired him because he was trying to be impartial and trump wanted a lackey.
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:
No. Trump fired him because he was trying to be impartial and trump wanted a lackey.
Anyone who maintains partisan loyalties/biases in government can claim to be impartial and say that anyone against them is only doing so due to partisan bias.
It's not that hard to claim you're impartial to hide your partisan loyalties/biases, in other words.
If people maintain party loyalty by upholding a partisan paradigm, they may not even be aware that they are biased.
It's like in 1984 when they have to learn that 2+2=4 or 5 or 3 or whatever the party says is true. Once you learn to accept the party's 'truth' as "the Truth," then you can honestly believe you're unbiased while maintaining party loyalty/bias.
@livinglava,
Which party and president is it that repeatedly claims the verifiable truth is fake news? which oarty claimed lies were alternative facts?
@coldjoint,
Proves the man who fired him was 1,400,000% worse than he was.
Republicans Endorse Biden
Lots of stories out about former President Obama endorsing Joe Biden, Bernie endorsing Biden, Warren endorsing Biden, pretty much every Democratic candidate for the nomination has stepped up to endorse him. (Even Tulsi Gabbard did so a month ago.) So now people are asking, what about Republicans? Especially “Never Trumpers.” Well, that dam is also starting to crack. The Lincoln Project posted this op-ed in WaPo today by George Conway, Reed Galen, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson:
We’ve never backed a Democrat for president. But Trump must be defeated.
When we founded the Lincoln Project, we did so with a clear mission: to defeat President Trump in November. Publicly supporting a Democratic nominee for president is a first for all of us. We are in extraordinary times, and we have chosen to put country over party — and former vice president Joe Biden is the candidate who we believe will do the same.
Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee and he has our support. Biden has the experience, the attributes and the character to defeat Trump this fall. Unlike Trump, for whom the presidency is just one more opportunity to perfect his narcissism and self-aggrandizement, Biden sees public service as an opportunity to do right by the American people and a privilege to do so.
The authors go on for several more paragraphs, making it clear that they’re not just endorsing Biden as the “un-Trump” — including this bit:
Biden understands a tenet of leadership that far too few leaders today grasp: The presidency is a life-and-death business, that the consequences of elections have real-world effects on individual Americans, and that all of this — all of the struggle, toil and work — is not a zero-sum game.
Earlier today, Max Boot, WaPo’s house conservative (and a decent person), put out this call: Republicans who don’t like Trump have no excuses: Endorse Biden:
It’s great to see Sanders and former president Barack Obama endorsing Biden. But it is also important for Republican elders to do so, since that will make it clear to middle-of-the-road voters (who will determine the outcome) that it’s safe to vote for a Democrat. We need to hear from the great and the good of what remains of the pre-Trump GOP.
Back in January, the Nashua (NH) Telegraph reported some Republicans were already endorsing Biden:
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is racking up support from Republicans alienated by President Donald Trump ahead of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation (#FITN) primary, as former U.S. Sen. Gordon Humphrey and former first lady Dorothy Peterson are endorsing Biden.
The Republican mayor of Michigan’s fourth largest city (Sterling Heights) endorsed Biden on March 10.
I haven’t seen other Republican endorsements yet, but these are enough already to have Trump making new scorch marks on the White House ceiling.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the political spectrum, AOC is moving toward endorsing Biden. She wants him toe “refine” his stances on some issues, but in the end:
Ocasio-Cortez, who had earlier backed fellow progressive U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Democratic nomination, said she expected to ultimately support Biden’s bid to unseat Republican President Donald Trump.
We sometimes pan Joe Biden (as we did Obama before him) for putting too much emphasis on bipartisanship, and we will have to remind him constantly not to go too far, but if we are ever going to heal this country and start moving forward as a nation, we — Biden — will need support from all sides. Looks like he’s starting to get some.
Kansas Democratic candidate for US Senate breaks fundraising records as Republican field scrambles
Chris Reeves
Daily Kos Staff
Wednesday April 15, 2020 · 1:22 PM EDT
Kansas has long been viewed as a reliable Republican state. Why not? It’s been decades since Kansas has been anything but a Republican stronghold in many races. in 2018, however, Kansas elected an openly gay Native American woman to US Congress, and sent Kris Kobach packing as the Democratic party took the governorship with Laura Kelly.
The retirement of Pat Roberts for 2020 has left the Republican field with a lot of contenders, but no standout, and the party could certainly nominate Kris Kobach again for a statewide contest. As first quarter fundraising reporting comes in, it is apparent that Kansas Democratic party members believe that they have a shot at the race — and State Senator Barbara Bollier’s fundraising of $2.35M in the quarter tops all candidates in the field.
From The Kansas City Star:
State Sen. Bollier raised $2.35 million during the first three months of 2020 in her quest to become the first Kansas Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate since 1932.
The Mission Hills Democrat, who left the Republican party at the end of 2018 because of opposition to President Donald Trump, more than doubled her fundraising in the fourth quarter of 2019, when she collected $1.17 million. It puts her six-month take at roughly $3.5 million.
Bollier’s strong showing will likely fuel national Republicans’ anxieties about the race to replace retiring GOP Sen. Pat Roberts.
Republicans are anxious because they have no idea who the Republican candidate will be going into November. Their field is large:
David Lindstrom, former county commissioner of Johnson County, Chiefs football player
Susan Wagle, current Senate President
Kris Kobach, former Secretary of State, last ran for State Governor
Bob Hamilton, self funding millionare owner of a plumbing firm
Roger Marshall, Congressman from Kansas first district
Because of the size of the field, there is a lot of uncertainty as to who will be their candidate, and with the Kansas primary happening in August, there will be less time to quickly unify around a candidate. After Republicans failed to recruit Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to come home and run for US Senate, everything went up in the air.
National Republicans dislike the idea of spending significant resources in a state like Kansas. Too bad.
@coldjoint,
5 "republican" votes and all of their subscribers, and friends, and friends friends also. And a lot of their friends at Fox News...
This is a trend...
Most republicans will be voted out by disgruntled republicans also, for siding with Trump and his apparent corruption.
Some republicans actually care about our country...
Imagine that... Huh.
@coldjoint,
It's more disgust than hate. Totally different emotion. Hate is purely emotional. Disgust arises from cognitive, moral and ethical disagreement. It's reasoned. It's pretty hard for a reasoned person not to feel disgust for trump.
@coldjoint,
Horsepucky, every lie trump has told and used as the basis for something he did has hurt the country. And it was in fact the electoral college that disenfranchised MORE than half the country, not comey.
@coldjoint,
Feel free to do something stupid with the guidelines and improve the gene pool by your resulting absence from it.
@coldjoint,
Trump's only value is "me me me". He's never had the slightest vestige of moral fiber. He hates fiber cause you get that in vegetables.
