Why is Turdblossom Talking about Hillary?
Two possibilities. One, Turdblossom has had a stroke of his own--but I don't think they would put him on TV if he was a blithering brain dead idiot.
Or Two, he realizes that the GOP has NO winner topics to run on this fall. The ACA helps dems. Ben-gay-gate is nothing. The GOP House is a laughing stock. Everyone hates the Kochs. So, he is going to try to make this fall's midterm elections be all about something that the GOP base can get together on---
---their hatred of Hillary.
So, cool. Let Turdblossom hate on Hillary. Meanwhile, I am going to focus on all the millions of people who are being denied healthcare by their own elected officials who think that genocide by lack of health care is the way to get ahead in the Republican Party (i.e Rick Perry). I dream of a 2016 in which any Republican who said "No" to the Medicaid expansion discovers that he is a pariah even among the GOP. Won't happen, but I can dream.
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I thought you were referring to Rove, but had to make sure, as I was pretty sure I've heard Rove's name referred to as turdblossom. Welcome the internet. So I searched TurdBlossom, and Rove's name was all over the first page. BINGO. 
And ya know, If i knew what a turd blossom actually was, a picture of Rove and Limbaugh come to mind first.
so welcome to politics! It is lots of fun and occasionally infuriating.
A couple of points. I wish it was a Medicare expansion. The Medicaid expansion is way better than nothing. The Medicaid expansion has allowed the state of New Mexico to attempt to recruit FPs (they won't find them) while rural hospitals close all across Georgia.
Second, as I have already stated in another thread, my official dream presidential candidate for 2016 is Julian Castro. That will be the case until 2015 and until/if someone I like better and someone who I think is more electable decides to run. Rove seems to be trying to push someone who will remain nameless to declare her candidacy early and also he seems to be pushing the Dems to rally around her early---so that he can give the GOP something to campaign against. However, we have plenty of time. 2016 isn't for two more years. In the meantime, I think we should all have fun promoting the Dem we love best---like my own beloved Julian Castro! I would love to see the GOP try to work up their base in a frenzy against Julian Castro. Come on, Karl. You can do. Tell your fellow Republicans why they should fear the mayor of San Antonio! I am sure the nation's fastest growing demographic will be very interested in hearing what they have to say.
Check out this great picture! I'm ordering a bumper sticker! Castro 2016!
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We've had a drought in North Texas. Only had ONE bearded iris this year (
) and the pomegranate still has not bloomed. So, it seems unfair for a Turdblossom to bloom.
As for Warren, she has repeatedly said that she's not interested in running. Besides, she's currently polling in single digits. At this point in time the GOP is not worried about Liz Warren. Of course that could change, two years is a lifetime in politics.
If Rove and the rest of the RW clown car are going after Hillary is because she consistently outpolls everyone, and by a substantial margin. This is not 2008. It's unprecedented to mount such an extensive attack against a non-incumbent candidate who hasn't even announced whether she will run in 2016.
So no, they are not more worried about a Sanders or a Warren run.
... would do to go after the corporatist oligarchic agenda that has manifested itself as a controlling two party entity between the Republicans and the "Third Way" Koch purchased influence over the Democratic Party that has produced 20 years of increasing corruption and a Supreme Court that's almost ready to rubber stamp real democracy out of existence.
Hillary hasn't announced she's running, and neither has Warren. They are EQUAL in that respect. When asked if she will not run in 2016, Warren continues to not explicitly qualify her answer "in 2016", but just says she's not currently running. She's not stupid. If she announces it now, she's got a big target painted on her for over a long time that let the corporate controlled media try to bury her. Rove knows this, and it is why he wants to make sure that the Republicans and corporatist Democrats don't even acknowledge the possibility of Warren to minimize any kind of momentum building. He knows she's far more dangerous than Hillary or Obama (or for that matter the already "doomed" from the start John Edwards in last election), so they keep counting on people like you to be their echo chamber to say that Hillary is the "chosen one" so that they know even if the Republicans lose, the uber corporatist party will still win with someone like Hillary in the end so that they don't lose their control.
As you note, two years is a lifetime, and it is way too early to be concerned just about numbers. That isn't what has Rove and the corporatists worked up. It is the possibility of a true populist progressive winning that they want to keep from happening, even now and even if their corporate media has the polls making it look like it's not possible now.
In 2008 there was a similar drumbeat for Hillary then, and how did that turn out? I'm sure that even then, the corporate lobbyists knew that Obama was more "controllable" than someone like Warren or Sanders would be. I noted that back then too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4303874
"blithering brain dead idiot"
And how would we tell the difference?
