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Meh. Gabbard is a flash in the pan that will soon fizzle and disappear. You can't make it in one party so you switch ideologies? That's pretty transparent to those of us who see fake and phony. I think you lose street cred when you do that.
Gabbard couldn't care less if she loses "street cred" with Dems...she's made that perfecty clear by leaving their party.
Let's see how the elections turn out that she helped out with....or are you afriad to watch?
"There’s a long way to go from here to there. If nothing else, though, we now know what a desperate misjudgment it was for Democrats to subtly assist Lake in the GOP primary. They thought they were propping up a patsy, when they were really helping create a star they may have to fear and loathe for years."
"There’s a long way to go from here to there. If nothing else, though, we now know what a desperate misjudgment it was for Democrats to subtly assist Lake in the GOP primary. They thought they were propping up a patsy, when they were really helping create a star they may have to fear and loathe for years."
It has been an interesting cycle and it will be very interesting to see the results when all is said and done.
Targeting/promoting candidates from the opposing party in the primaries that you think/say are "crazy" and can be easily defeated in the general is very risky and we might see a complete backfiring this year.
Agreed. Running as an independent would split the conservative vote.
Maybe she could do a similar move like Dr Oz, and run in another state for a Senate seat. Oregon, Washington state? She could possibly stay as pro choice, running as a Republican in a blue state.
I was thinking NJ, in 2024 against Menendez, however, it is far from Hawaii and she might not to spend as much time in the east coast.
In the Senate, she gets 1 out of 100 votes to block wars and funding for Ukraine, etc.
However, she seems like being on camera and being a star attacking the Left, without too much voting baggage of her own to defend, and being in the Senate would make her less special.
To me, she seems like just another oddball political figure to grab a bit of attention amid a fading career. Her extremist ideas never did seem to fit into the Democratic Party, IMHO.
We Democrats tend not to tolerate demagogues. Gabbard has been selling unorthodox views of various types for some time. How she was able to hold onto her House seat after meeting with brutal Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad always was puzzling to me. Her type of adulation for authoritarianism just can't be sold to Democrats, so its easy to see why she left the party after her weird run and massive defeat for the Democratic presidential nomination followed by that radical performance at CPAC. Tulsi & Kari now, eh?
Kari Lake is an opportunist and a conspiratorialist herself so in some respects it is easy to see why Tulsi is trying to hang onto Lake's extremist anti-democratic MAGA Republican coattails.
Anyone who regards Donald Trump as the second coming, as Lake does, is a nut. Tulsi Gabbard is as shallow as Kari Lake and the former TV media figure is as shallow as her pancake makeup.
They and their MAGA Republicanism are clear and present dangers to the nation and democracy. Over 60% of Americans will have a MAGA Republican election denier on their ballot in 2022. Big Lie Trump promoters, MAGA Republican religious zealots and conspiracy peddlers of all stripes are Trump MAGA candidates. They believe the only votes that matter are those cast for the GOP. Most, like Lake, when asked, refuse to say they will accept the results if they lose. Their interest is attention for power not effective governing. Democracy is on the line. Putting GOP candidates such as Lake and now the latest convert to MAGA, Tulsi Gabbard--- who most likely will run for something in 2024--- in power could upend the crucial American ideal of free and fair elections and our very democracy. God help Arizona and the USA.
Good for a laugh. Thanks I needed that. Democrats are the ones always verbally hating on the US. Democrats are always verbally trashing democracy for socialism, Marxism and even a growing faction of those on the left for communism. The democrats are the party who crush our energy production. The democrats are the party supporting open borders and fight against traditional family values such as both a mother and father in the home. The democrats are the party rallying against law and order with their chants of defund and go easy on criminals. I could go on and on. The real threat to democracy are the democrats not a handful of so called MAGAs.
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