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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    Swaye said:

    I can't see any way he doesn't.

    I mean aside from the totally obvious democrat move which is run a decent moderate candidate.
    Which there is about 0 chance of them doing.



    All the Dems have to do is run a moderate, just as you suggest. They will trot out Pocahontas or some other socialist and get drubbed. LRR
    This is garbage poltical analysis.

    Hillary lost because the progressive base didn’t turn out for her.

    The Dems lost hundreds of seats during the Obama years because he did shitty Republican health care reform and expanded our forever wars in the Middle East.

    Hillary was the center-left establishment moderate who pandered to “moderate” Republican voters instead of the liberal base, and it failed spectacularly.

    A democrat from the left-wing of the party would have trounced Trump.
    Oh my God.

    This is exactly what I'm talking about.

    They are gonna do it too.



    They still don't fucking get it. It's insane.


    Hillary losing and trump winning had fucking zero to do with her platform or policies.
    Sort of. It had to do w/ policies in that Hillary ran a campaign on policies that ranged from marginally important to retarded.

    She thought she could get elected with the Berkeley vote. And she almost did, until yet another bit of info "leaked" questioning her integrity. That was one thing Obama didn't have to carry ... nobody really believes the birthers - even Bannon calls that crowd "fringe".

    What the hell are you talking about? Hillary spent the entire campaign slobbering over her ballzak.
    Crisped.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    Swaye said:

    I can't see any way he doesn't.

    I mean aside from the totally obvious democrat move which is run a decent moderate candidate.
    Which there is about 0 chance of them doing.



    All the Dems have to do is run a moderate, just as you suggest. They will trot out Pocahontas or some other socialist and get drubbed. LRR
    I don't think Romney will switch parties.

    They'll roll out Pocahontas and Inslee.

    Dumb and dumber.



    Romney was running for Senate in Utah.

    HTH
  • HardlyClothed
    HardlyClothed Member Posts: 937
    edited May 2018

    Swaye said:

    I can't see any way he doesn't.

    I mean aside from the totally obvious democrat move which is run a decent moderate candidate.
    Which there is about 0 chance of them doing.



    All the Dems have to do is run a moderate, just as you suggest. They will trot out Pocahontas or some other socialist and get drubbed. LRR
    This is garbage poltical analysis.

    Hillary lost because the progressive base didn’t turn out for her.

    The Dems lost hundreds of seats during the Obama years because he did shitty Republican health care reform and expanded our forever wars in the Middle East.

    Hillary was the center-left establishment moderate who pandered to “moderate” Republican voters instead of the liberal base, and it failed spectacularly.

    A democrat from the left-wing of the party would have trounced Trump.
    Oh my God.

    This is exactly what I'm talking about.

    They are gonna do it too.



    They still don't fucking get it. It's insane.


    Hillary losing and trump winning had fucking zero to do with her platform or policies.
    Sort of. It had to do w/ policies in that Hillary ran a campaign on policies that ranged from marginally important to retarded.

    She thought she could get elected with the Berkeley vote. And she almost did, until yet another bit of info "leaked" questioning her integrity. That was one thing Obama didn't have to carry ... nobody really believes the birthers - even Bannon calls that crowd "fringe".

    What the hell are you talking about? Hillary spent the entire campaign trying to reach out to moderate Republicans instead of making concessions the progressive base.
    Ok man. I guess the rest of us missed it. Remember, it's not just the candidate ... it's what the candidate's party is doing.

    If you don't remember bathrooms, deplorables, e-mail servers, gay marriage! and Obamacare, then I just can't help you.

    Oh, I'm well aware that Hillary isn't nearly as liberal in real life as she pretends to be, but her public face is all about that other shit. Yeah, she was centrist relative to Bernie, who actually lets people call him a socialist w/o fighting back. Compared to him, I see your point.

    You have a lot of work to do before you convince me that she lost because not enuff bleeding hearts turned out to vote. We all know that was reported, and likely played a part, but I'm pretty suspect about placing too much emphasis on precise statistics concerning things that "didn't happen." Know what I mean?

    The Hillary and the entire party blew it. Just admit it and move on.
    This is correct.

    If you can’t put together how our political shift (in both parties) towards unfettered capitalism is and has been failing the majority of working class people since the 1980’s and the resulting failure of neoliberalism in the Democratic party then you don’t truly understand why Hillary lost.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,542 Standard Supporter
    edited May 2018
    2001400ex said:

    Swaye said:

    I can't see any way he doesn't.

    I mean aside from the totally obvious democrat move which is run a decent moderate candidate.
    Which there is about 0 chance of them doing.



    All the Dems have to do is run a moderate, just as you suggest. They will trot out Pocahontas or some other socialist and get drubbed. LRR
    I don't think Romney will switch parties.

    They'll roll out Pocahontas and Inslee.

    Dumb and dumber.



    Romney was running for Senate in Utah.

    HTH
    Sure.gif.

    That's not his end game.

    Point being (aside from the one on the top of your head) - Romney's a moderate that would roll as a Democrat. But the Dems are too hung up strutting their intellectual elitism to actually run someone with a chance to win.

  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Swaye said:

    I can't see any way he doesn't.

    I mean aside from the totally obvious democrat move which is run a decent moderate candidate.
    Which there is about 0 chance of them doing.



    All the Dems have to do is run a moderate, just as you suggest. They will trot out Pocahontas or some other socialist and get drubbed. LRR
    This is garbage poltical analysis.

    Hillary lost because the progressive base didn’t turn out for her.

    The Dems lost hundreds of seats during the Obama years because he did shitty Republican health care reform and expanded our forever wars in the Middle East.

    Hillary was the center-left establishment moderate who pandered to “moderate” Republican voters instead of the liberal base, and it failed spectacularly.

    A democrat from the left-wing of the party would have trounced Trump.
    Oh my God.

    This is exactly what I'm talking about.

    They are gonna do it too.



    They still don't fucking get it. It's insane.


    Hillary losing and trump winning had fucking zero to do with her platform or policies.
    Sort of. It had to do w/ policies in that Hillary ran a campaign on policies that ranged from marginally important to retarded.

    She thought she could get elected with the Berkeley vote. And she almost did, until yet another bit of info "leaked" questioning her integrity. That was one thing Obama didn't have to carry ... nobody really believes the birthers - even Bannon calls that crowd "fringe".

    What the hell are you talking about? Hillary spent the entire campaign trying to reach out to moderate Republicans instead of making concessions the progressive base.
    Ok man. I guess the rest of us missed it. Remember, it's not just the candidate ... it's what the candidate's party is doing.

    If you don't remember bathrooms, deplorables, e-mail servers, gay marriage! and Obamacare, then I just can't help you.

    Oh, I'm well aware that Hillary isn't nearly as liberal in real life as she pretends to be, but her public face is all about that other shit. Yeah, she was centrist relative to Bernie, who actually lets people call him a socialist w/o fighting back. Compared to him, I see your point.

    You have a lot of work to do before you convince me that she lost because not enuff bleeding hearts turned out to vote. We all know that was reported, and likely played a part, but I'm pretty suspect about placing too much emphasis on precise statistics concerning things that "didn't happen." Know what I mean?

    The Hillary and the entire party blew it. Just admit it and move on.
    Of course she and the party blew it. They sill believed in the failed “third way” centrism and they projected elitism. That’s what I’ve been saying. That is the reason the democratic party is loathed from the left and why they didn’t turn out in 2016.

    You have the right premise that the establishment Dems and the party machine are discredited failures. Your problem is that you can’t see that that was the argument of the progressive base who wanted to move the party away from neoliberalism and back towards working class populism. That’s the liberalism I’m talking about. Material concerns. Not the stupid bathroom shit.
    That I can follow. Populism and whatever flavor of socialism share a kindred desire to take other people's shit. Democrats blew and are blowing the chance to co-opt that voting bloc.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Swaye said:

    I can't see any way he doesn't.

    I mean aside from the totally obvious democrat move which is run a decent moderate candidate.
    Which there is about 0 chance of them doing.



    All the Dems have to do is run a moderate, just as you suggest. They will trot out Pocahontas or some other socialist and get drubbed. LRR
    This is garbage poltical analysis.

    Hillary lost because the progressive base didn’t turn out for her.

    The Dems lost hundreds of seats during the Obama years because he did shitty Republican health care reform and expanded our forever wars in the Middle East.

    Hillary was the center-left establishment moderate who pandered to “moderate” Republican voters instead of the liberal base, and it failed spectacularly.

    A democrat from the left-wing of the party would have trounced Trump.
    Oh my God.

    This is exactly what I'm talking about.

    They are gonna do it too.



    They still don't fucking get it. It's insane.


    Hillary losing and trump winning had fucking zero to do with her platform or policies.
    Sort of. It had to do w/ policies in that Hillary ran a campaign on policies that ranged from marginally important to retarded.

    She thought she could get elected with the Berkeley vote. And she almost did, until yet another bit of info "leaked" questioning her integrity. That was one thing Obama didn't have to carry ... nobody really believes the birthers - even Bannon calls that crowd "fringe".

    What the hell are you talking about? Hillary spent the entire campaign trying to reach out to moderate Republicans instead of making concessions the progressive base.
    Ok man. I guess the rest of us missed it. Remember, it's not just the candidate ... it's what the candidate's party is doing.

    If you don't remember bathrooms, deplorables, e-mail servers, gay marriage! and Obamacare, then I just can't help you.

    Oh, I'm well aware that Hillary isn't nearly as liberal in real life as she pretends to be, but her public face is all about that other shit. Yeah, she was centrist relative to Bernie, who actually lets people call him a socialist w/o fighting back. Compared to him, I see your point.

    You have a lot of work to do before you convince me that she lost because not enuff bleeding hearts turned out to vote. We all know that was reported, and likely played a part, but I'm pretty suspect about placing too much emphasis on precise statistics concerning things that "didn't happen." Know what I mean?

    The Hillary and the entire party blew it. Just admit it and move on.
    This is correct.

    If you can’t put together how our political shift (in both parties) towards unfettered capitalism is and has been failing the majority of working class people since the 1980’s and the resulting failure of neoliberalism in the Democratic party then you don’t truly understand why Hillary lost.
    I truly curious your view of increasingly unfettered capitalism.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    2001400ex said:

    Swaye said:

    I can't see any way he doesn't.

    I mean aside from the totally obvious democrat move which is run a decent moderate candidate.
    Which there is about 0 chance of them doing.



    All the Dems have to do is run a moderate, just as you suggest. They will trot out Pocahontas or some other socialist and get drubbed. LRR
    I don't think Romney will switch parties.

    They'll roll out Pocahontas and Inslee.

    Dumb and dumber.



    Romney was running for Senate in Utah.

    HTH
    Sure.gif.

    That's not his end game.

    Point being (aside from the one on the top of your head) - Romney's a moderate that would roll as a Democrat. But the Dems are too hung up strutting their intellectual elitism to actually run someone with a chance to win.

    I don't know if he would roll as a Democrat but he isn't conservative enough for Utah.



    As a side point. I always wonder why a dude like Romney, who never has to work again and has access to many corporate boards to keep him engaged, wants to be a senator.
  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    2001400ex said:

    2001400ex said:

    Swaye said:

    I can't see any way he doesn't.

    I mean aside from the totally obvious democrat move which is run a decent moderate candidate.
    Which there is about 0 chance of them doing.



    All the Dems have to do is run a moderate, just as you suggest. They will trot out Pocahontas or some other socialist and get drubbed. LRR
    I don't think Romney will switch parties.

    They'll roll out Pocahontas and Inslee.

    Dumb and dumber.



    Romney was running for Senate in Utah.

    HTH
    Sure.gif.

    That's not his end game.

    Point being (aside from the one on the top of your head) - Romney's a moderate that would roll as a Democrat. But the Dems are too hung up strutting their intellectual elitism to actually run someone with a chance to win.

    I don't know if he would roll as a Democrat but he isn't conservative enough for Utah.



    As a side point. I always wonder why a dude like Romney, who never has to work again and has access to many corporate boards to keep him engaged, wants to be a senator.
    I think Romney has that old-school patrician called-to-serve thing. Or daddy issues. Don't twist.