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The Democrats are conniption-fit mad at lifelong Democrat Howard Schultz for publicly considering a third party run for President. Their mass-media troops have been engaged and are on it, as we have seen the last couple of days.
Now it appears that Howard Schultz may have an angle for helping to take out the more left leaning and race obsessed candidates on the left.
“You just played Senator Harris saying she wants to abolish the insurance industry. That’s not correct, that’s not American.”
-@HowardSchultz
The government run, single payer (socialistic) healthcare proposal favored by Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is "Not American". That's some powerful stuff, fellas. And it sounds like a phrase that is likely to resonate quite strongly with moderate Democrats and independents, not to mention at least a few Republicans.
In fact, Donald Trump may just tip his hat to Schultz on this rather effective dagger thrust, as it is just the sort of clever labeling that he might have come up with himself.
Booker is the second African American candidate to join the fray, following California Sen. Kamala Harris' entry last week, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Booker's announcement also carries symbolism, coming on the first day of Black History Month. Booker, who speaks fluent Spanish, plans to call into radio stations with black and Latino audiences Friday morning to discuss his campaign.
"The history of our nation is defined by collective action; by interwoven destinies of slaves and abolitionists; of those born here and those who chose America as home; of those who took up arms to defend our country, and those who linked arms to challenge and change it," Booker said in the video Friday.
Kamala Harris has already gone out of her way to stake out the most left wing position imaginable within this bracket. It is not clear whether Booker will want to try to flank her from the left, but it will require some really imaginative posturing to figure out a way to do that, if he does.
In any case, he is focusing initially on establishing a strong base among black and Latinos, which is as straightforward of an "Identity politics" play as it is possible for a candidate to make.
Eric Holder, who is another expected candidate in this bracket, is expected to announce his intentions later this month.
Joe Biden, weighing a 2020 White House bid, once advocated continued school segregation in the United States, arguing that it benefited minorities and that integration would prevent black people from embracing “their own identity.”
Biden was speaking in 1975, when he opposed the federally mandated busing policy designed to end segregation in schools. In the past few decades, he has claimed he wanted desegregation but believed the policy of busing would not achieve it. Last year, he stated he had voted heroically to protect busing.
So, this was about the same time that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was in high school, right? Except Joe was well beyond High School and also college too, for that matter. Also, there is corroborating evidence in this case, as his statements were on the public record and are documented accordingly.
Will this matter? Honestly, there are going to be those in the black community that are going to bothered by this.
And can you imagine the reaction, by elected Democrats and the leftist media if a Republican candidate for President had spoken these words? Obviously, this would be wall-to-wall breaking news, with all the usual suspects on television, accusing the Republican candidate of being a racist and a bigot worse than Hitler and the last 10 grand wizards of the KKK combined. Of course they vaguely accuse Donald Trump of racism every day, but without any legitimate substantiation to speak of, which this surely is for Joe Biden.
So, if the media ever wants to start being trusted again, they need to start behaving in a trustworthy manner. And that means applying the same standards that they apply to their adversaries to those who they regard as allies. But what is more likely is that they either will avoid this story like the plague, or they will mention it in a story on page 28 below the fold with as few sentences as possible, or on television during a shortened segment, one time, by their least popular show host, probably on a weekend.
If anyone sees the Democrat left mass media covering this, please do let us know.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) took a shot at some of his fellow Democrats on Friday, saying that "Medicare for all" is not a practical idea. "I know most of the Democratic primary candidates are all talking about Medicare for all. I think instead we should do Medicare at 55,” Brown said.
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Well that is a problem, because Kamala Harris has gone all in on single payer, government run healthcare.
So this should really serve to help separate and distinguish Sherrod Brown's candidacy, if he does indeed decide to run for president. But it seems to make him also incompatible with many of the other candidates for a role as Vice President, if it were otherwise to make sense for the ultimate nominee to consider Brown for this role.
So, I could be wrong, but I suspect this means that Sherrod Brown will probably not be the vice presidential nominee for Kamala Harris.
And let's keep in mind that the president is actually elected in the electoral college and that the votes for Democrats are concentrated on the coasts and in large cities. So they need to have a good 5-6% national lead in the popular vote in the polls to have any real cause for hope going into election day.
For dems, crazy is the new black.
The independents rightly see the field is theirs for the taking in 2020. Just like Trump with the GOP in 2016. The dems will be gibbering and frothing at the mouth in debates and anybody else will look sane and reasonable.
The Democrat left media and social media lynch mob is proposing a boycott of Starbucks as a result of Howard Schultz statement of intent to run for President as an independent.
Please keep in mind that Shultz is no longer Starbucks CEO and has no direct affiliation with Starbucks. But of course as we have seen too many times and as we all know all too well, the Democrat left lynch mob has no appetite for democracy, freedom of speech, or any kind of human decency or respect.
And of course this is just the beginning. These people will go after his family, they will fabricate lies and falsehoods that are more despicable than any decent person would ever imagine. The media will make him an open target, and as we have seen with the physical attacks by Antifa and against Senators and White House staff in restaurants and other public places, his physical security will very certainly be a major concern.
The Democrat left media and social media lynch mob are locked and loaded. They are without principle or any kind of human decency and the end justifies the means.
What a bunch of monsters these people have become.
Sounds like you've been listening to too much Limbaugh.
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