Now that that's settled, I have an announcement to make: The 2020 election is a referendum on Trump. Full Stop. ~ Kick

No. Absolutely not. Not even close.

Actually, that is 100% dead on accurate.

This election is about turnout. All elections are about turnout.

You don't say? *laughs* So for you to make the ridiculous claim that the election is not a referendum on Trump and is "about turnout" because they all are, you seem to be missing the point that elections can be about more than one thing.

Cut to the chase: Trump will attempt to make the election a referendum on "socialism" and the four freshman representatives known as the "squad" because he wants to run against them. However, this election is most assuredly a referendum on Trump.

As for the remainder of your post, you seem to want to argue basics, and it's highly likely that no one here is interested in a refresher course on politics.

It's incoherent: if you try to bring in one batch of swing voter, you drive away about half as many who don't like whatever that batch does like. When you have a candidate that people actually like, you both drive up your side's turnout and soothe the people on the other side who aren't really voters, just sort of loosely attached to the electorate.

"Batch"? *laughs* You're talking about voters as if they're cookies and either peanut butter or chocolate chip. A "candidate that people actually like"? That's a rather juvenile description. And in your scenario there, are we to assume that your definition of "people" is yourself and who you like? Seems like it.

"Our guy is enough less awful than theirs" is NOT a slogan that will bring your side to the polls.

Well, it's your slogan, and it does suck; I can assure you that no one will be using it.

As for your multiple assessments of Joe Biden, I disagree with them. You don't like Joe Biden. M'kay, got it.

Republicans will have no qualms whatsoever about using it when he actually is the nominee.

You don't say? *laughs*

This election will NOT be a referendum on Trump.

Yes, it will... just like the 2018 midterms were a referendum on Trump. Repeat after me: Trump and health care... and throw in the economy in 2020 (as always for presidential elections).

Do you think the record turnout for Democratic candidates in 2018 was composed millions of people that were motivated solely by the Democratic messaging? Nope. They were primarily motivated by Trump... and health care... and Trump's trying to take health care away. It hasn't been a year since the midterms, and nothing has changed... so far.

Not saying things can't change, just saying they haven't yet. :)

(code)

If you guys are going to be excising everything from the name of The Prolix One to the next comment-start, am I going to have to refer to him by silly titles, as with He Who Must Not Be Named? Maybe I should ask what his full name is, so I can figure out an anagram with a gibberish middle name.

Now that that's settled, I have an announcement to make: The 2020 election is a referendum on Trump. Full Stop.

No. Absolutely not. Not even close.

This election is about turnout. All elections are about turnout. Swing voters are, almost by definition, a minuscule mixture that's mostly in the muddled middle. It's itty-bitty: lots of people identify as "independent", because everyone hates politicians and doesn't want to identify with either batch of them. But everyone knows which batch they hate more. It's incoherent: if you try to bring in one batch of swing voter, you drive away about half as many who don't like whatever that batch does like. When you have a candidate that people actually like, you both drive up your side's turnout and soothe the people on the other side who aren't really voters, just sort of loosely attached to the electorate.

"Our guy is enough less awful than theirs" is NOT a slogan that will bring your side to the polls.

Biden is too old. A key part of his original appeal as a running mate was that he would be too old to run in 2016, so Democrats with presidential aspirations would have no reservations about getting on the Obama bandwagon in 2008. He's been addled ever since his brain aneurysms back in the 1980s. He brags about palling around with segregationists back in the day, who actually called themselves "segregationists". He's a serial groper.

All of these facts are in the public domain, but it's also down the memory hole. Democrats aren't going to use it against their likely nominee. Republicans will have no qualms whatsoever about using it when he actually is the nominee. As soon as he has primary/caucus wins amounting to enough delegates for the nomination, we will get a flood of news hooks from that moment until election day, bringing all this slime out of the memory hole and into the limelight. Republicans know how to do that.

With Biden constantly in the slimelight from March 10 to November 3, Democratic-leaning "independents" will be decisively tipped from being riled up against Trump to being completely in despair about our country's political leadership. Republican-leaning "independents", meanwhile, won't hate him with the intensity the felt for Hillary, but they'll dislike him enough to vote.

This election will NOT be a referendum on Trump. Unless other help unlooked-for comes, it will be a referendum on our political system, with Trump as Exhibit A. His fans will vote yes, the rest will vote nothing, and he will get a second term.

There will be some bugs, but the code is very simple, so I should be able to make it better over time.

Yea.. YOU got it goin' on, Neil...

[33] Michale wrote:
OK, now let's see what Weigantians have to say about things.. :D

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As long as CW allows it ;)

There will be some bugs, but the code is very simple, so I should be able to make it better over time.

Net, net - fairly simple piece of php that automatically applies the removal to the latest CW column.

$commentend = strpos($homepage, "", $commentstart);

The search string is not an empty string, but:

less than sign + backslash + li + greater than sign.

If you want to stand up your own instance you can probably figure it out.

This automatically works on the latest post, so on Monday evening it will switch to that column.

Here is the php code.

<?php

$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.chrisweigant.com/');
$searchstring = '';
$divcontent = strpos($homepage, $searchstring);
$urlstart = strpos($homepage, "href=", $divcontent) + 6;
$urlend = strpos($homepage, "rel=", $urlstart) - 2;
$url = substr($homepage, $urlstart, $urlend - $urlstart);

$homepage = file_get_contents($url);

// Find Michale Comment
$michale = "Michale";

while ($foundtroll = strpos($homepage, $michale)) {

// Find associated <li
$commentstart = strrpos(substr($homepage, 0, $foundtroll), "<li class=");
$commentend = strpos($homepage, "", $commentstart);
$pagelength = strlen($homepage);

$part1 = substr($homepage, 0, $commentstart);
$part2 = substr($homepage, $commentend + 5, $pagelength - $commentend + 5);

$homepage = $part1.$part2;

}

echo $homepage;

?>

My time now belongs to my lovely trophy wife.. :D

See ya in about 5-6 hours.. :D

Give ya time to participate.. :D

...and pigs will fly, I swear it!

Yea.. That's what you claimed in 2016, eh?

You were full of shit then and yer full of shit now.. :D

Since yer hear, son...

Did you ever find any FACTS to support your bullshit claims about the Gilroy shooting??

No.. Of course not... :eyeroll:

...and pigs will fly, I swear it!

NRA was never a really big part of President Trump's administration..

You grasping at straws, Junior..

Trying to deflect from the train wreck that is the Democrat Party..

You know it.. I know it.. Everyone here knows it.. :D

Republicans worry that the NRA and two other groups that have long formed the core of their electoral infrastructure will be effectively on the sidelines.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/03/nra-guns-trump-campaign-1395970

More good news for the party of the past.

DeBlowHole is moron, everyone knows that..

Republicans felt the wrath of the voters at the ballot box in 2018,

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No, Democrats ran as Republican Lite and was able to squeak by with House control..

That won't happen in 2020... The House will revert to GOP control.. And President Trump will retain the Oval Office..

So here in Texas, the 2020 ground game is not much different than 2018:

In other words, Dumbocrats are going to lose in Texas.. AGAIN!! :D

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Let me repeat that for the cheap seats..

and it's no secret that the Democratic Party right now has been moving far to the left policy-wise relative to the Obama administration,

So, when I said that the Democrat Party is lurching far to the Left and ya'all denied it six ways from sunday???

I was factually accurate and ya'all were full of shit.. :D

Gods, it's tough being factually accurate all the time.. :D

I'm with Kick. The 2020 election is a referendum on Trump. Full stop.

Sure, policy does matter some. Last November's midterm elections were largely a referendum on two things and a combination of those two things: Trump and health care and Trump doing everything he can to take away health care.

Republicans felt the wrath of the voters at the ballot box in 2018, and the Rat Infested Fat Bastard still bloviating and still doing everything he can to take away health care via the courts is the gift that keeps on giving. The Republicans couldn't kill the ACA when they controlled both houses of Congress so promising to kill it when they don't takes a special kind of hysterical stupidity.

Also in the 2018 midterms, referendums to expand Medicaid passed in the Red states of Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah, while Maine and Virginia also expanded Medicaid following the 2018 midterms.

So here in Texas, the 2020 ground game is not much different than 2018: Lather, rinse, repeat... with some minor tweaks, of course. Last year we flipped TX-32 so next year it's TX-23, and we're certain Will heard about it. ;)

CNN reporter Rebecca Buck on Friday said former president Barack Obama is "expressing exasperation" over the Democratic Party's movement to the left.

"As you know, Obama has been trying to stay out of this primary as much as possible, keeping quiet, and not making any endorsements even with his former vice president Joe Biden in the race," Buck said. "But privately Obama, our CNN colleagues are reporting, is expressing exasperation at how far left the party is moving on some policy issues and of course breaking with some of the things he did when he was president."

You still denying the massive push to the Left the Dumbocrat Party is taking???

Even ODUMBO sees it!!!

Face reality, sunshine.. Yer gonna lose... :D

CNN Reporter: Obama Exasperated Over Left-Wing 2020 Candidates

Progressives have been criticizing Obama Administration on Immigration, health care
https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-reporter-obama-exasperated-over-left-wing-2020-candidates/

Ya've gone and pissed off Odumbo!!!

No more Hopey-Changey crap for ya'all anymore!! :D

The desperation of the Democrat Party is always a source of amusement for me.. :D

Like Trump; dislike Trump. Either way, he was correct in what he said about Cummings’ district — specifically Baltimore. Cummings is too smart to disagree, but he has to play the same political game. People can stand in opposite corners, calling each other racists, but it will accomplish nothing. Meanwhile, cities such as Baltimore continue to fester and stink of urban rot, decay, and failing schools.

These are FACTS, people..

Not racism..

But you can't handle FACTS when they intrude on yer Party slavery delusion...

Once again.. ALL because of Democrat rule... And, magically, the President is "racist" for pointing out the FACTS...

Frankly, the city has been slumping for decades under constant Democratic control — politicians who have continued to mishandle things the same way for decades, yet somehow have expected improvements. The last Republican mayor of Baltimore was Theodore McKeldin (1963-67), and the last time a Republican was elected to the City Council was 1939.

A *DEMOCRAT* said that Baltimore should give the thugs room to destroy..

And somehow, it's a GOP President who is "racist" for pointing out Baltimore is a shithole because of Dumbocrat rule...

Dumbocrat "logic"...

While she was absolutely correct, nothing changed during her scandal-ridden administration, ending with her resignation in May of this year after she pushed a series of children’s books in exchange for city contracts. Were Pugh’s comments racist? What about the myriad reports by PBS, The Baltimore Sun, and the New York Times? All racist? No, none of them are.

They only racist ones are the ones with a -R after their name..

{/sarcasm}

Democrats who say the EXACT same things are NOT racists.. :eyeroll:

So it is in the delusional minds of the Party slave..

Less than a week ago, in a reply to Maryland’s Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, who made disparaging comments about the living conditions of asylum-seekers on the southern border, Trump told Cummings to focus his attention on his home district. “Cummings’ District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous and filthy place. … No human being would want to live there,” Trump wrote.

The reaction from the same media? Crickets.

And then we have the FACTS....

It's time to put aside partisan bickering and racism accusations. Like Trump or hate him, the fact is that the past 60 years in Baltimore have been a dismal failure.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/02/left-jumps-trump-saying-democrats-said-baltimore-years/

Apparently, Democrats are the racist ones, as they have been saying what President said about Baltimore for years..

You mean, like when Odumbo nominated Tom Daschle???

Or, maybe you mean when Odumbo nominated Robert Chatigny...

Or you possibly could mean when Odumbo nominated Caitlin Halligan....

And so on and so on and so on..

Funny how you were completely silent on those failed nominations of Odumbo...

Nothing but Party slavery...

:eyeroll:

PWNED!!! :D

I know, right!? Is anyone surprised that Trump makes yet another shitty hiring decision using the criteria of "what's best for Trump" instead of what's best for national security? Nope.

The hallmark of the Republican Party these days is being a hysterical bloviating fake who smoodges Fat Bastard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ADuDylCeU

It's comical to watch them genuflect at the feet of a criminal con.

You mean, like Joe Biden did in the 1988 Election??

And remind the few...
When ill of us they speak....
That we are all that stands between...
The monsters and the weak...

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/13839e8d10b9303c8d9aee50576e15b15f4844be91d15073a21097a85b780c50.jpg

“The economic catastrophe that would result from Biden’s radical position is hard to overstate,” he said. “We don’t know who President Trump’s opponent will be, but Joe Biden just said goodbye to auto and manufacturing workers, Pennsylvania and the Midwest.”

There is simply NO WAY that Biden can walk this back or pretend he didn't hear the question properly...

He is done.. Oh, he may hold on in the Primary.. He might even be the nominee..

But there is simply NO WAY that ANY Independent, NPA or Trump voter will consider voting for Biden..

SO, he IS done...

Democratic front-runner Joe Biden’s blanket statement that he would end Americans’ use of fossil fuels if elected president amounted to political suicide in parts of the Rust Belt where coal remains king when it comes to jobs and workers’ economic security, the Trump campaign argued.

I can picture at least TWO Weigantians (maybe even 3) who groaned and shook their heads when Biden declared he would eliminate fossil fuels if elected..

I can picture ONE Weigantian who laughed like hell and cheered.. :D

You can stick a fork in Biden.. He's done..

He just totally eviscerated his "electability" status...

Apparently, President Trump is a big fan of chrisweigant.com and follows my work.. :D

Yep.. Yep... Exactly...

The other candidates will undoubtedly take note of the impact she made with her unabashed insanity, and several will probably try to mimic her strategy, driving the whole primary field even further to the left than it is already. Make no mistake: Marianne Williamson was the clear winner of that debate, and that should terrify anyone who isn’t completely insane.

Which obviously excludes 95% of today's Democrat Party...

When the candidates were asked about reparations, for instance, Williamson dazzled the audience with made-up math, “calculating” that the country probably owes trillions of dollars to the descendants of slaves. In the interests of racial reconciliation, though, she’d settled on $500 billion. She calls this a “politically feasible” amount, because apparently she has no idea what those words actually mean.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/02/marianne_williamson_is_a_harbinger_of_doom_for_the_democrats_140910.html

If I were a conspiracy type along the lines of Truthers/Russia Collusion Delusion type, I would say that Williamson is a GOP plant designed to take down the Democrat Party..

But, being the REALITY-phile that I am, I simply conclude that the Democrat Party has gone off the deep end..

They are not just over the hill.. They are on the way to the rocks below..

First off, this isn't a real "judge"... She's a "commissioner of trials".. Her anti-cop recommendations carry NO LEGAL weight..

Second, why should Officer Pantaleo be fired?? He did nothing but his job..

Garner was obese and he decided to fight the law..

The law won..

End of story..

If PC O'Neill fires Officer Pantaleo, O'Neill will prove that NYPD officers are out there alone.. With NO backup from 1 PP...

I don't think O'Neill wants to go down in history as the Commissioner who gave the 38,000 NYPD to the politician wolves....

Exactly....

More and more, the reasons why a Democrat won't win in 2020 is becoming apparent...

"The problem for Democrats is that Al Sharpton actually is, as Mr. Trump put it on Twitter, 'a con man.' And not just a con man: Mr. Sharpton is an ambulance-chasing, anti-Semitic, anti-white race hustler."

In other words, Sharpton is a perfect fit for today's Democrat Party...

WaPo, NYT op-eds blast top presidential contenders for rallying to Al Sharpton's defense
https://www.foxnews.com/media/wapo-nyt-op-eds-blast-defense-al-sharpton

Oh... SNAP.

Sharpton is being recognized for the racist con-man he is...

:D

The day keeps getting better and better.. :D

Once again, President Trump proves that HE rules..

And Dumbocrats drool.. :D

The problem is that, when Democrats attack Democrats, they are creating Republican Campaign ads...

I am not surprised you cannot see the logic of this..

But it is a fact nonetheless...

Now THAT is funny.. :D

SO.. Now you want to inspect Trump's feet??

Funny how you didn't complain about lack of military service with Odumbo.. Or Epstein's best buddy, Clinton..

You have no moral foundation to complain about President Trump's lack of service, considering YOU have never served either..

Of all the Weigantians, I am the only one who has worn the uniform of our country's Armed Services.. Yes.. Armed Service*S*.. I was US Air Force and US Army during the Desert Storm..

So you can take your America hating faux indignation and shove it...

Who wants a bet there are none detectable in Trump's feet, and no surgery scars.

The NRF are pulling no punches - the announced September 1st round (if they even happen, bone spurs bozo has a record of wimping out at the last moment) hits consumer goods hardest and the markets noticed - the S&P Retail index fell 3.4% versus the 0.9% decline for the general S&P 500 yesterday.

Exactly..

A western democracy and, by default, those that wish to lead western democracies can utilize 4 different forms of governance..

Liberal, Socialist, Religious and Nationalist...

Each has their problems... Socialist's problem is obvious.. They NEVER work because you always run out of someone else's money...

Liberal (the OLD style liberal, not these progressive assholes who call themselves "liberal") the free market and secular liberal can govern well enough in peace time but is ill equipped to defend itself when attacked. Not attacked in the political sense, but attacked in the literal sense.. That's why the liberals of 1916 UK were swept aside under the onslaught of Weimar Republic in WWI... The dominant Liberal party was all but wiped out by Mussolini in Italy in 1922 and France's liberals were crushed by Hitler's SS in 1940...

Nationalist governments are the only ones who have shown they have the liberal chops to create a lasting government that serves the people plus the wherewithal to DEFEND the people when hostilities arise..

In other words, Nationalist governments fare the best in all around governance..

I am a proud American nationalist...

Unfortunately, here in Weigantia I am surrounded by a sea of faux-liberal America haters...

But hay.. It's what makes life interesting.. :D

Amirite?? :D

Hazony seems to me on solid ground in arguing that nationalism, rightly understood, can be a force for good. Trump's words on D-Day, and those of presidents before him on earlier anniversaries, should remind us that the Allies who cooperated in that enterprise were all led by nationalists -- America's Franklin Roosevelt; Britain's Winston Churchill; France's Charles de Gaulle; and the leaders of Canada, Poland, Norway and Australia.

Without nationalism, it's likely that Nazi Germany would have conquered the world...

Nationalist states, he argues, can provide peaceful havens for those of differing cultural views and economic interests who share a common citizenship. They will, he argues, protect their individual liberties and (here some readers will disagree) abjure external conquests. "The best political order that is known to us," he writes, "is an order of independent national states."

Nationalism is not bad.. It is a force for good..

But Dumbocrats have tried, with varying success, to equate nationalism with WHITE nationalism, IE racism..

Which is like night following day because the Democrat Party gave us the KKK...

Exactly..

How can you run for the leader of a country is you profess hate for the country you want to lead???

Yet you can't stop reading my every word and commenting daily, oft times HOURLY how much you ignore me!!

There is a word for that..

PWNED

:D

And the little 16yr old just CAN'T stop talking about me..

Say, kid.. This space you gave me in your head is pretty empty.. Small brain and all that..

Mind if I redecorate... Put up some MAGA posters and the like??

You won't mind, eh? I mean, since you aren't using the space in here for critical thought.. :D heh

I mean, seriously. EVERY comment you make in here is only about me.. :D

"Quit trying to {ignore} me and {ignore} me!!"
-Morpheous

PWNED!!!

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~Silly seasons greetings!~

Ya gotta admit.. This has got to be a personal best for me.. :D

Aww right I have some real work I need ta get to..

Talk to ya'all later.. :D

Welcome to today's Democrat Party.. :^/

"And I'm spent...."
-Austin Powers

:D

Still cracks me up!!

A Democrat who wants to get rid of coloreds and make the Oval Office whiter!! :D

The first woman to break the glass ceiling and be elected President Of The United States!!

And her first official act is to clean something.. :D

You can't make this stuff up, people!!! It's hilarious!!! :D

It WILL be nice to winnow the field.. Right now, Democrats can delude themselves into thinking it's not THEIR candidate who is un-American, it must be one of the other candidates..

Once the # is down to 3-5, then there will be no hiding amongst the crowd...

America haters will have to declare themselves...

They can't call out a specific act because they don't have any FACTS to support a specific act..

And ya'all really wonder why everyone says that Democrats hate America??

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Yea.. The candidates who promise that really have a shot at being President Of The United States..

NOT....

And NO... That's NOT a celebration of German tanks.. :D

"I'm all ears..."
-Ross Perot

President Trump is delivering for African Americans. We’d be wise to not overreact to his inflammatory tweets and instead react to what he is doing, and urge Democrats to work with him to accomplish more to benefit Baltimore and other cities like it.

Nope.. Won't ever happen..

Democrats like their hate WAY too much to actually help black Americans..

Don't take my word for it.. Listen to the people of Baltimore..

“Trump is not racist … I’m glad he put (Cummings) on blast,” Michelle said. “The rats just didn’t come. These houses just didn’t get torn down, they’ve been like this.”

Michelle is not a racist who hates black people, nor am I. As black Americans, we want and expect elected officials to take action to improve our cities and improve the lives of all the people there.

Once again.. The FACTS.. And nothing BUT the facts..

How about it??

Wanna drop the Smollet-esque bullshit racism accusations and actually work WITH President Trump for the betterment of Baltimore residents???

Naaawwwwww.. Of course not.. Ya'all would prefer the false accusations.. :eyeroll:

This is EXACTLY ya'all's problem and the problem of Democrats in general..

Ya'all and they use the color of a person's skin as shield against legitimate criticism...

You can't criticize a black person or else yer a racist..

Those were the words of someone in this very forum during the Obama years..

Which is TOTALLY in violation of what Dr Martin Luther King preached..

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Dr King would be VERY ashamed of the Democrat Party today and would be a full on President Trump supporter.. Like his niece, Dr Alveda King..

Again.. These are the facts whether you agree or not..

By acknowledging these problems – in admittedly strong language – the president may spark change. The positive effect of the Trump Twitter attacks could be a bipartisan effort to improve the lives of minority populations and improve living conditions in our cities in the years ahead.

Which is EXACTLY what President Trump's plan was from the outset..

The fact that he was able to bitch-slap Dumbocrats was just icing on the cake..

"Sauce for the goose, Mr Saavik"
-Captain Spock, STAR TREK II, The Wrath Of Kahn

:D

In addition, 90 percent of the more than 2,000 prisoners just released under the First Step Act signed by the president are African-American.

Ignore ya'all's Party slavery and actually think for yourselves..

Are these the actions of a person who is racist??

If ya'all are honest (I know.. BIG stretch) you would concede that they are not...

These aren't the words of a racist.. These are the words of a man who sincerely wants to help black Americans out from under the thumb of their Democrat slave owners...

Only a racist or a Party slave would see anything else...

Instead, I believe Trump was trying to draw attention – and certainly succeeded in doing so – to unacceptable conditions in Baltimore and saying that Cummings and other Democratic elected officials have not done enough to improve those conditions.

Exactly..

The ONLY racism here comes from the Party that gave us the KKK.. The Party who made a PLAN to attack people and falsely accuse them of racism, just to shut down debate...

That Party is, of course, the Democrat Party...

Democrats don't WANT to benefit Baltimore..

They are happy to let Baltimore wallow in the stinking morass of poverty...

It took President Trump to get black American unemployment down to it's lowest point in history..

Not even Odumbo could accomplish that...

President Trump needs to slap down the Dumbocrats over Baltimore..

Place a call to the Baltimore mayor. Tell him, "Forget the Democrats.. Tell me what you need and I'll make it happen.."

Let's see if the mayor really cares about his constituents ("Thank you Mr President. We would welcome your help!!") or only cares about his Party ("Frak you, racist!!!") and to hell with his people...

It could go either way...

And yet, President Trump said the same things that Bernie Sanders has said.. The same things that Elijah Cummings has said..

Are they ignorant as well???

Seems to me if you have 3 different people, all from very VERY different areas along the political spectrum, ALL saying the exact same thing??

Seems that it would be this author who doesn't know a thing...

I put the word debate in quotes because this week’s encounter, hosted by CNN, was structured to maximize conflict and minimize clarity. In a typical exchange, one of the moderators — network stalwarts Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and Don Lemon — would say something like, “Candidate X, your rival Candidate Y says you have poopy pants. How do you respond?” Candidate X would reply that Candidate Y’s mother has a moustache. Then they would go back and forth until Candidate Z chimed in with a touching story about meeting a mustachioed mother on the campaign trail who struggles with medical costs.

That's the state of the Democrat Party in the here and now...

Democrat candidates vie for how many people and groups they can hate... :eyeroll:

If the debates showed anything, they proved that the huge Left ward jaunt of the Democrat Party produced an unforseen side effect..

The Democrat Party hates Obama....

Who woulda thunked it...

Who would have thunked it..

Stig and I actually AGREE on something.

CNN is NOT news.. :D

I knew you would come around to my way of thinking, Stig..

First Neil and now you..

The takeover is proceeding nicely.. :D

Again, this isn't ME who is saying these things..

It's Demcorats..

That’s political malpractice. The day that Obama has become too conservative for the Democratic Party is the day that the Democratic Party has lost touch with mainstream America. And it’s why Biden, one of the few candidates to proudly tout his associations with the former president, came out on top Wednesday night.

Hehehehe

This bears repeating..

The day that Obama has become too conservative for the Democratic Party is the day that the Democratic Party has lost touch with mainstream America.

If there is any doubt that the Democrat Party has moved WAY Left, this proves it beyond ANY doubt...

Only a simpleton would deny the facts and reality...

The fact that Biden was the only candidate to embrace the former president’s record made him the clear winner in Wednesday's debate.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/680558?unlock=UWM6KI55U77D1HH3

In a first for me...

Submitted without comment.. :D

Tennessee Uber driver shoots man who fired at him and his passenger, police say
https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-uber-driver-shoots-hits-man-who-fired-a-gun-at-him-and-his-passenger-reports

Those who claim that the good guy with a gun is a myth??

Their full of kaa kaa...

Trump decries 'wasted money' on inner cities, tweaks Democratic rivals at Ohio campaign rally
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-ohio-campaign-rally-wasted-money-inner-cities-joe-biden-ilhan-omar

President Trump packs them in like a rock star!! :D

No doubt about it.. The enthusiasm is with President Trump...

Again, it's not ME who is saying all these things..

It's Democrats who are saying all these things..

The party's entire health care debate is essentially a repudiation of ObamaCare. After all, Democratic presidents since Harry Truman wanted to do health care reform, and Obama got it done. His program had problems, kicked some people off their plans and hit others with big premiums. But it did expand coverage and is now relatively popular.

Party Unity My Ass!!

:D Dumbocrats are self-destructing before our eyes..

Who could have POSSIBLY predicted this!??

Oh.. wait.. :D

The context was the Obama administration’s deportation of nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants. When Biden wouldn't repudiate that, Julian Castro said, "it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn't." And Cory Booker chided Biden for not being willing to say whether he had dissented from the Obama approach.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/forget-trump-why-many-dems-are-throwing-obamas-record-at-biden

Attacking Obama.

Yea.. THAT'S the way to beat President Trump.. :eyeroll:

I swear, the Dumbocrat candidates just fell off the turnip truck..

It's factual statements like this will insure that Biden is NOT the Democrat Nominee...

What part of "NO" do Dumbocrats not understand???

Drink thrown at Matt Gaetz could get former political rival a year in jail after guilty plea
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-woman-pleads-guilty-to-throwing-drink-at-matt-gaetz-could-face-1-year-in-jail

I seem to have forgotten what with all the FACTS to the contrary.. :^/

Democrats don't need American workers!!

They got the identity politics votes!!

:eyeroll:

Oh come now...

Taking constituencies for granted!??

That's the Democrat Party way.. ;)

But!!! But!!! But!!!!

Moscow Mitch!!! Trump is Russian Spy!!!!

{/sarcasm}

Like racism, this is another hysterical and baseless accusation that the hysterical Dumbocrats hurl at President Trump that has absolutely ZERO basis in facts or reality...

I look forward to ya'all joining the REAL world....

Probably won't happen before Jan 2025 when President Trump leaves office...