So they admit that Christie and Bondi as candidates was a sham designed to generate "good" press?
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So they admit that Christie and Bondi as candidates was a sham designed to generate "good" press?
Come on. If this guy can get confirmed after all the shit's that's been dug out on him in the last 24 hours, this Republic's truly lost.
This was a special election basically because of Franken's resignation.
She won a special election to serve the remainder of Al Franken's term, who was reelected in November 2014.
As sad as it is, this can not be underestimated. Someone who can hold media attention is going to be very necessary.
I am not sure on Beto running for President, I'll need to think about it some more, but he is one of the people that I can see seizing and holding media attention.
As if, like Kavanaugh, this wasn't the plan from the very beginning.
People have and will call Beto a "celebrity" like they did Obama but that's a strength. I mean we have a reality TV celebrity as President who had name ID and could get attention in 2016. Beto can steal the constant news coverage around Trump which denies Trump the power to always define the topic of debate.
That's Betos biggest strength and it can't be ignored. Trump has dictated the news cycle since the 16 primaries. Beto is the only politician since then who has that it factor who can be the magnet for media attention to have them hang on their every word.
He is the first politician of this last decade after Obama and Trump to seem to have that ability. If he can transition that nationally he will extremely difficult to stop.
That was just to complete the rest of Franken's term. Just like Doug Jones is doing and what Scott Brown did.
Well I mean I can't imagine him getting confirmed by the Senate and if loyalty is a prerequisite Bondi should be close to the top of the list
I mean the whole "likes and trusts" means Cheeto thinks Whitaker will limit the Mueller investigation, (almost) everything else be damned
Every time I was on Facebook the last 2 weeks prior to the election beto was live. He knows how to directly leverage social media, which is ethical and more effective than trolls.
There is only one ~-Moderate Darling-~ vote in the senate that should concern Republicans on confirmation and once January hits, they have 50 votes to confirm him without Murkowski.
He'll get confirmed.
Anyone who's done even a little reading or research into the history of U.S. Presidential debates and/or elections will tell you what a watershed moment the Nixon - Kennedy debates were because, allegedly, people who just heard them felt Nixon won while those who saw the thought Kennedy won.
Some of the biggest takeaways in political theory from that was image matters more than we might suspect and television is THE major player in campaigns.
Looking back at the some of the most popular and game-changing president's we've elected, Reagan the Cowboy Actor, Bubba the Smooth Saxophone Player, W the Down Home "I'd have a beer with him" doofus, Obama the Total Package, and Trump the literal TV star and lifelong conman who succeeds on selling people his image.
I'm willing to say that Policy. Does. Not. Matter. for the President. Sure you're not going to get elected without having a policy of some kind - but everyone runs on something! And every candidate is going to have some variation of "we're going to have a strong economy, and rebuild our country, and fix problems X, Y, and Z". The focus and priorities change, but those variables are minuscule vs "Do I get excited by this person?"
Republicans AND Democrats now "fall in love" because we're not electing a heads of state, we're electing fucking mascots for the country.
Well at some point shit is going to hit the fan and this Fake Attorney General is big trouble for the DOJ and its ability to litigate, since any litigant can claim that he isn't a legitimate AG since he didn't go through the process of being confirmed by the Senate.
But the shitshow is getting so bad I don't think he'll stay around for long
Like Oprah would ever play second fiddle.
Clearly. Neither does 'electability'. It's why I always take umbrage with the people that will never let go of the 'Hillary was the most qualified candidate ever, with great policies!' because that doesn't mean jack shit anymore.
I feel like we hear this statement about X event every other day.
Bernie Sanders believes Trump could be a Civil Rights champion and that he's just pretending to be racist. Get him out of the paint, this article is even worse than the last one. There's no room in the Democratic nomination process for this rhetoric on racism.
Bernie's quote:
looking forward to seeing a bunch of overweight white people at a highway McDonald's in Ohio wearing "proud wingnut" and "proud kook" t-shirts.
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It sounds like he's saying the guy will do or say whatever he thinks will benefit him because he has no values rather than what that tweet is implying. I don't really fuck with Bernie, but this one is a reach.
Eh, the last quote was definitely worse. The last one said that the most pervasive type of racism wasn't actually racism. This one is basically saying that Trump serves himself above all, which is probably true. That being said, it's still pretty stupid, since there is no situation in which Trump would ever have to pivot like that and, as we've seen, his natural inclination is to be racist.
Except, Trump has repeatedly shown his values over the decades.
How quickly we forget stuff like the "Central Park 5"
Literally, the one policy position Trump has is he's racist. It's literally ALL he has. Bernie is implying here that he's not really racist, he just plays one on TV. Again, it's not a reach, it's another example of how anytime race comes into the mix, Bernie shoves his foot not so much in his mouth but down his own throat.
Racism is literally the ONE thing Trump is consistent on.
So Trump has just been acting for the last 50 years then?
Someone come get your man!
I get what he's say but oof that's is the worst anecdote he could go with. He still fumbles with race issues after so many missteps it's hard to keep calling them accidents
Ehh, that central park 5 stuff was probably just Trump setting the stage for an eventual racially-charged presidential run.
Who gives a shit? It's got nothing to do with the point he's making. I'm no Bernie Stan by any means, but there's nothing to get angry about when you read what he's saying. I've read it twice now and don't see the problem. He's basically calling the guy a snake.
Why in the world are we giving Trump the benefit of the doubt on RACISM.
It's literally his entire platform!
When someone shows you who they are, over many decades and countless occasions, believe them. This shit goes back to the 1970s and housing discrimination against African-Americans with Trump all the way up through yesterday. Sorry Bernie, I think this is a "core value" of his. And yes, I get the point Bernie is trying to make - it is just not a particularly good one.
If he comes second, sure... VP if he wants it. But him failing to win the primary would be disqualifying for top of the ticket. Whoever wins the primaries should be top of the ticket.
You would be crippling the democrat ticket to screw over the person who wins the primaries, and you'd risk disenfranchising huge numbers of their supporters. Look at how many Bernie supporters were disenfranchised because they *think* he was robbed. Imagine if someone actually *was* robbed?
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