"Joe Lunchbucket", from Podunk, Pa

[SoCalDem]

Sometimes I wonder what these people referred to as Reagan dems & Bush voters,really think .. or if they still exist, in great numbers...

We are told, by the likes of Joe Scarborough, that they are incapable of nuance.. that they "don't understand" the big issues. Pundits put them down regularly, and portray them as "ignorant racists".

The image the media would have us believe is one where "Joe L & the wife & 2.5 kids" were too poor to go to school..and went straight to the assembly line.. they don't mingle with the "other races", look down on them, and resent the hell out of them for stealing jobs they should have had and for getting into college for free...

Does this type of person even SOUND remotely like a democratic voter?..for HRC or BHO??

Does this stereotype even exist in great numbers anymore?

The "mall-ization, YouTubeification" of America has gotten TO these people..no matter how much Ole Joe S wants us to think otherwise..

Truth-be-told, Joe Lunchbucket's lunchbox is probably rusting in the garage, and he's probably changing tires at Sears' Auto center these days.. Mrs. Lunchbucket is probably working at Wendy's or at the mall.

His kids probably play T-ball or soccer..he probably hasn't had that "assembly line" job for a while now...

His family has the same problems that all of us have.. high health care costs, high food prices, high gas prices, trying to hold on to his house & car..

He probably has less time to sit around parsing issue-statements than some of us do, but he might be more nuanced than many give credit for..

I am also guessing that IF he's the way the pundits say he is, he's probably as unlikely to vote for a woman..as he is to vote for a black man..

[Sadie4629]

1. He also doesn't want to hear

"God DAMN America" from a pastor.

Or that the government introduced HIV to get rid of Black people.

Or that America is "Just plain mean" from a woman with a $500,000 income and an Ivy League education.

You can spin it however you want, but I think this is still a huge problem for Obama. And it just may mean that Hillary Clinton is our nominee.

[casus belli]

2. Wishful thinking? n/t

[Joe the Revelator]

5. There isn't a chance that Hillary becomes the nominee

The worst of the Wright matter is behind Obama, he's pivoted and will continue to change the narrative all week.

Hillary still can't take the delegate lead.

She still can't take the pop vote lead

There is zero change of her winning more states.

The Supers are not going to give it to her when she trails in all catagories.

The quicker you understand that, the better.

[Sadie4629]

8. The superdelegates exist

to prevent an unelectable candidate from becoming the nominee. If they see Obama as less electable than Clinton due to his association with Rev. Wright, then it is their responsibility to ensure that she becomes the nominee.

I sure wouldn't want to be in their shoes right now. Bet they're sweating bullets.

[olkaz]

10. You might want to check the history.

That's not why they exist.

[Joe the Revelator]

17. You keep copy and pasting this same logically devoid statement

Come up with something new, that makes sense.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. Yes, they do exist. I grew up with those people.

Many of them are Republicans, but not all. There's still plenty of these folks in Pennsylvania.

[SoCalDem]

7. I'm sure some do exist, but racism and sexism are two sides of the same coin

They may SAY they are democrats (maybe they used to be in a union), but the fact that they keep voting republican in general elections, makes their primary votes irrelevant

[Romulox]

4. It's the crudest form of class warfare: "Sign on to globalism, or you're an ignorant racist." nt

[philk17088]

6. Joe L is busy

Joe Lunchbox is busy trying to stay ahead of the wave.
He more than likely has resigned himself to the fact that nobody really cares what he thinks and will pander to him long enough to get his vote and dump him. He will make no special effort to vote.

[SoCalDem]

12. Every 4 years they get pandered to, and yet they don't see

much improvement.. That's what always gets me.. After a while it's not hard to see why so many people are turned off..

Did Reagan help those Reagan dems? nope.. Did Bush?..Hell NO..

the sad truth is that the USA may have jumped the shark, and no one can really change things for the masses..in a good way..

When all the money is clustered at the top, the amount left for the rest of us to fight over, only gets harder to hold on to.

[DainBramaged]

9. Joe Scarborough needs to be hit over the head with a "lunch bucket"

His little backhanded diatribe this morning was not even covertly racist. Yet it's OK for Gramps to have that Catholic hater as his "religious consultant", whats his name. Haggis, Hattie?


I am so sick and tired of Reich wing talking points burbling out of my TV when I wake up.

[marylanddem]

11. Scarborough is not only stupid

He is strangely mean-eyed...

[Coexist]

13. and he has no lips - that is so creepy to me

[DainBramaged]

18. Ever notice how the Reich wingers are the thin lipped/no lip guys??

How significant is that?

[SoCalDem]

16. beady little rat-eyes

[JVS]

14. His kids don't play T-ball, they've already grown up

[SoCalDem]

15. okay.. his grandkids

:)