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bigtree

(85,915 posts)
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 08:23 AM Jul 2018

They're going to call me socialist anyway, Thompson told Ocasio-Cortez. "You might as well come..."

Ben Terris at WaPo:

____It’s one of the top theories among Democrats that the way to win back majorities in Congress is to move toward the center, maybe peel off some moderates or at least not freak them out so much that they vote Republican in 2018. Thompson doesn’t buy it.

“They’re going to call me a socialist anyway,” he said he told Ocasio-Cortez. “You might as well come out so we can all have a good time.”

...after the rally, Thompson couldn’t agree more. He had hundreds of newly registered voters, he said. He had donations pouring in. His daughter finally got to meet one of her old heroes, and one of her newest heroes.

He didn’t necessarily agree with everything Ocasio-Cortez or Sanders believe in, but he doesn’t think voters care as much about each individual issue as much as they just want someone on their team, someone who fights for them.

Yes, more people were taking to social media to call him a socialist, he said. But with 5,000 roaring fans still in his ears, Thompson said he had a message for the haters.

“They can just shut their pie hole,” he said. “Because that was a good time.”

read: https://t.co/B92lLN9mR8

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They're going to call me socialist anyway, Thompson told Ocasio-Cortez. "You might as well come..." (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2018 OP
Thompson could actually pull this off oberliner Jul 2018 #1
"they just want someone on their team, someone who fights for them." Tom Rinaldo Jul 2018 #2
that resonates bigtree Jul 2018 #3
k&r.. disillusioned73 Jul 2018 #4
 

disillusioned73

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4. k&r..
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 11:00 AM
Jul 2018

If you run fearful of what your enemy will say about you, you have already lost..

“They can just shut their pie hole,”

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