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Stare Decisis's JournalOn Polling Data Joe Biden And What WE Constantly Screw Up About Politics
The whole abortion is a winner thing, the whole gun control is on our side thing.
There are proper positions to take, but you have to understand that they may hurt politically. A lot. But don't really on polling data to soothe your fee fees. It won't help.
It seems odd that after literally decades of service to this party that I have to explain it, but here goes-
If position A. is 60 percent in favor, 40 percent NOT in favor, it means less than duck squat. Wha wait? What? Ya. Read it again.
Why? Because, unless the 60 percent in favor will actually get out and vote on it, it is meaningless. Trump won the full base of the Republican party, getting to his demographic max, with two words-Supreme Court. That means abortion. Say half of pro choicers vote that is 30 percent of the electorate. Say 95 percent of pro-lifers vote-that is 38 percent. Now this is not to tell you that we should abandon core principles, but it is to tell you that we need to constantly push our base to vote, win over newbies, and work our asses off.
Whenever I see posters talk about data, I think about the awful mistakes of the Kerry campaign, focus grouping, high road, windsurfing, fake hunting..ugh.
The biggest political tactical difference between the two parties is that one runs on a polling level, the Democrats, and one runs on a street level, the Republicans. Republicans hear the streets. So in order that our candidates be successful we need street kids running these campaigns, not elitists. We need to listen, we need to respond. I don't care about phones, focus grouping, blah blah. I am FROM the midwest. I know what these people feel, they may not go to a fancy office to fuss about it, but it is how they vote. That is the real, man.
But most of you demonstrate that you don't have the stomach to fight on their level. Then you will lose. This isn't "Preserving Your Conscience 101." This is a war. Fight it or not, but know what is required. This is like the Biden thing-
Now Joe might have possibly kissed a young Democratic female on top of the head after possibly smelling her unwashed hair. Maybe. And..not good. But why are we releasing taxes? Constantly apologizing. Once the Republican party stood by a man who proudly crowed about the random sexual assault of women, why would our former VP have to stay out of the race? Get real. Maybe this is true, maybe this woman did have this happen to her. After 76 years of life, as a young man in an era where grabbing secretary booty was part of the interview process, at the twilight of his career, THIS is it? Are you fucking kidding me?
Because if we jump on moral high horses, and toss aside an awesome man, over this who will be left? Pete probably once in his life offended someone. I think at some point Julian had to have actual sex to have children. Aren't you tired of losing?
You know where this garbage leads? It leads to a presidential debate, our candidate on one side, theirs on the other. In youth, our candidate might have sped. Maybe a DUI. Theirs might have committed a vehicular homicide.
And what then happens is some dweeb moderator starts out the debate, "Our first question is about your past, both of you have acknowledged you have criminal records.."
And then you cry and whine and moan about why you lose. Because the best VP in history might have once misread a situation and made a woman uncomfortable. Once. In 76 years. A kiss on top of a woman's head. A smell. Fine, educate him on his error, let him apologize, forgive, and move on. Wrong is wrong and there is no woman that should be marginalized, but there is a continuum of behavior. If something worse is shown, we can talk until then-
Hair smelling and head crown kissing can't disqualify a man from running against a misogynist. It just can't. These so called standards do nothing to make us better than them.
Just subordinate to them.
I don't have the inclination to work with babies on training wheels. Show up ready to fight or don't show up.
If You Watched The End of The Kentucky-Houston Game
and you think for a second that was remotely even tell me why!
Terry for the win
Looks like Joe is out. Establishment blesses McAuliffe. If he consolidates the party middle he is the nominee and next President. Laugh but watch this space.
We Tried It That Way-It Is Time For A Political Thor.
For too long the Democratic party has been infected with a moral martyrdom complex, a toxic mix of political correctness, weakness, and some long held belief, probably borne of some misguided overpriced education, that in the end, it will all work out as long as we stay on the high road.
Ya, it works out for those on the high road, the overpaid advisers and politicians, but for the rest of us? It is a motherfucking flood down here. Because in the real world, we have to paddle our asses off. This means being rude at times. This means saying nasty words.
And yet every time I try to speak honestly, I get some scarf wearing Berkeley type nutcase talking to me about how we are "better than that."
John Crawford and Philando Castile won't get to walk the high road. Hillary Clinton is not going to be President. This wimp ass group may find a way to lose and give a buffoon two terms, but don't "act like them "don't say "balls" and by all means cede the middle to the result of an investigation run by Republicans. That sounds like a good idea.
The time for false piety is over. The reason this party falls victim to circular firing squads is because elites in it are constantly telling the rest of us how awful we are. Or that we went to a state school, or that we need more patience, when what we need is the mindset of a striking union worker, what little of that base we have left.
Most of you will clutch some pearls, publicly, but the vast majority of those reading this will NOD if not thunderously applaud in approval privately. And my advice to the latter is that if you want to take this country back, make your voice heard. There is a reason Rogan and Jeselnik are so popular-there is a reason Trump is hard to beat, and it has nothing to do with talent. It has to do with this notion that we have to constantly parse every word or every action in order to please some soccer mom focus group.
The Democrats have to decide if they worship Berkeley or want to play in Peoria. Not enough people care about climate change-so be unflinching. Show the fucking models. You know the ones I have seen, way back in the day when I was on a campaign. The one that shows NO FLORIDA because of sea level rise. NO HOUSTON because it is then ocean? Stop police brutality. Fight for the American worker. Stop hiding behind some false notion of piety every time someone says something remotely "insensitive". Grow a pair.
YES GROW A MOTHERFUCKING PAIR. And guess what? Balls don't have to be exclusive domain of the straight or even male. It is called a euphemism. But moreover, the vast majority of this country, even our own voters, view the direction of this party as being one of naive children leading themselves off of a cliff.
Do you think in your heart of hearts you can beat Trump being nice? Being above board? Being better than them? Would you rather be validated by the problem or anonymized by the solution?
Look I don't want you to confuse my rebellion against political correctness with a desire to use slurs, or insult oppressed classes. Fuck no. But this constant condescending tut tutting by those who think they know better has to stop. The soul of this party must be unleashed in order to save itself. For the sake of two monkeys fucking do you realize some Twitter morons tore apart Alyssa Milano on Twitter for trying to empathize with Transgenders? Do you realize we spend as much time fighting each other over a GARBAGE parsing of words as we do a very dangerous enemy?
I rarely call out Dems. However our persistent naivete has to stop. Our hand slapping, and finger pointing, belittling has to stop. The next election is not going to be decided by professors. It will be decided in trenches, like always, the coffee shops, the bars, the American Legions, the salons, the streets, by people who care very little to be slapped down due to using a few words that one can to be offended by. They care about their pocketbook. Food. Maslow's hierarchy. That's it. They won't march in mass because some toy insensitively recreated a racial face structure.
They might if they realize just how royally fucked they are. But for us to win a fight, we have to show up to the right ones, and quite frankly, take the gloves off and stop criticizing each other's tactics.
Consider this-the best option to beat Trump Gillibrand proudly cost us, Al Franken. For what? We don't know-he was pushed aside before a full investigation could get done. Meanwhile a man who openly commits obstruction, and ADMITS to RANDOMLY sexually assaulting women..you see where this is going?
Now this is a test. What percentage will report this because of my language, more concerned with some linguistic policing than the overall message. Despite the fact I advocated on everything we believe in. Despite the fact it needed to be discussed, despite the fact I AM RIGHT. That's a fact. Not an opinion.
There is ONE critiera for this next party's nominee. Beat Trump by representing the true spirit of our party. That might be Pete. That might be Beto. It might be Kamala.
But it had better be someone that wants to go bare knuckled toe to toe. Dukakis or Kerry won't cut it. Now you know just how badly rigged this country is. Old school spooks tend not to be patriots, they tend to be bagmen. Lesson learned.
Male or female, we best figure out who in this process is Thor or Thorette. Because if we have learned at all, any fucking thing through this process, it is that the era of bipartisanship is over, statesmanship died with McCain, and there is no time to argue about the petty.
Game on. Balls required.
Trump Is Probably Being Advised To Stay Quiet
1. Self-incrimination.
2. Witness or evidence tampering if he comments about anything in the report.
IF this report clears him, there will be a wave a Tweetstorm you have to assume.
Maybe this is all we need to look at-
That looks like a man with a very difficult dilemma to me. I believe the most likely outcome is a deal is being cut. It may be done in such a way as to look unrelated to the report. At any rate, that looks like a man who is very shaken.
Thoughts?
HE. Has. Not. Tweeted.
And there is a large rule regarding sealed indictments like not revealing their existence.
This is DU At It's Worst
Many good people here but this kind of investigation is next level stuff I seriously doubt we understand how it all works so we should be patient and stop with the negativity. This is not a time to rely on Google law degrees. We have to remember justice is slow and what we think is worthless compared to what they know.
Don't Confuse Bob Mueller for Jerry Orbach-This Ain't Law and Order
And these things don't get solved before the end of the commercial break. But if I had to guess a deal has long since been done and we will be dealing with President Pence quite soon. We don't know if he sent a referral for impeachment, if he outsourced indictable information, if he decided not to indict a sitting President but allow the public to force him out.
We don't know. Maybe they fucked us over. Maybe not. Pour a drink. This is just the end of the beginning. This fight is just heating up.
An interesting discovery in a change research poll
For some reason they included mike pence and a horse race match up against top contenders for the democrats
The electoral bottom line on Pete
If brilliant can't win because of gay this country will have chosen bigotry over ascendancy. So why compromise for people unwilling to save themselves?
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