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Analysis: How Trump Decision Revealed G.O.P. Memo’s Shaky Foundation

@blatham,

Good lord. There's a fine way to lose an election.

@ehBeth,

I wondered about your opinion on this. I think you're wrong. It's hard to imagine your protest would be as regards competence, intelligence or ideology. It must be marketing, I think.

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@blatham,

She's past her sell-by date and makes Mrs. Clinton look charismatic. She's the Elizabeth May of the US.

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@blatham,

Love Warren's politics. She'll be 71 when she takes office if she wins, so I hope if she does she commits to being a one term president.

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@revelette1,

That's a great piece, rev

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@ehBeth,

Those are marketing considerations (not invalid for being that) which bow to sexist and ageist notions. I find her very charismatic and getting better at that as time goes by. We'll see what options present themselves over the next year.

PS the Mercer family has already established a SuperPac to bring her down.

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Today's Voices From the Right

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A Republican lawmaker and former FBI agent told NPR on Sunday that it’s clear President Donald Trump was “manipulated” by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“The President was manipulated by Vladimir Putin. … Vladimir Putin is a master manipulator,” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) told NPR’s Michel Martin, adding that he was “frankly sickened by the exchange” between the two world leaders.

TPM

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now there's something to mull over

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Pay attention to the timeline:
Putin in DC on Nov. 2.
Midterms are Nov. 6.
Military parade on Nov. 10.

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@ehBeth,

I’d vote for Warren of course, but I’d like to see a younger candidate. Not because I think she’s too old to do the job but because I want a younger candidate to help promote the party for decades to come.

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@ehBeth,

Sounds perfectly strongmanish.

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@maporsche,

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because I want a younger candidate to help promote the party for decades to come.

I see no reason to assume that Warren won't achieve exactly that.

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The spoiler effort, now underway in tandem with the pro-Trump America First super PAC — which helps promote the president’s agenda — is geared toward more than muddying-up prospective Trump opponents. The groups are also pursuing a strategy intended to pit Democrats against each other in a battle of progressive bona fides that the PAC is gleefully branding as the “#RaceToTheLeft.”

The idea is to Identify and create fissures among Democratic candidates, fueling a race to embrace liberal litmus tests like single-payer health care, and stoke emerging flashpoints such as rejecting corporate PAC contributions, legalizing marijuana and abolishing the federal government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Politico
This - fostering division and discord - will be the game. As it was last election.

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Face it, Democrats don't have anything even remotely resembling a viable presidential candidate and, in all likelihood, will be stuck running the Hildeabeast again and 2020 exactly the same way they were stuck running Adlai Stevenson against Ike a second time in 1956.

That was the Democrat party at its best, the man who just won World War II versus a left wing schlamozzle whose own mother might or might not recognize him if she had not seen him in three days. Sort of like a heavyweight versus chicken weight fight, Joe Louis versus little-Weewee Jones.

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@blatham,

For sure.

It’s why you see things like #DemExit on the signature line of some of the righties even on this site.

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@maporsche,

#demexit started soon after Bernie was cheated during the primaries.

#DemExit
#walkaway

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@blatham,

I have always found her incredibly flat - smart and flat. Again, think Elizabeth May. Canada's smartest politician by far - she's been acknowledged as a parliamentary leader by all of the parties - superb technical debater - but just not there as a campaigner.

Would I vote for Ms. Warren if I was a voter in the US? I'd have to, but I sure wouldn't be happy that the party had selected her.

I was talking about the need for the Democrats to find a young, smart AND charismatic candidate years ago. Neither of the major US parties seems to have a gift for bringing young candidates up through the ranks. I think it's a horrible gap.

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@blatham,

And the party has done nothing meaningful to prevent it being successful. Nothing.

They should have had their next candidate ready to go.

Nothing happening on the succession planning side.

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@Lash,

It doesn't matter how it started, the republicans and other outside groups such as the Russian Trolls use it and others because they see it as a negative for the left and benefiting the right and Trump. It plays right into their hands.

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@izzythepush,

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Iran has never threatened America.

What an incredibly stupid thing to say.

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